22 Million Pounds of Plastic Enters the Great Lakes Each Year

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Dec 20, 2016, 1:24 pm262 ptsTrending
U.S. and Canada together discard 22 million pounds of plastic into the waters of the Great Lakes each year, according to a new Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) study . Most of it washes up along the shores, accounting for 80 percent of the litter found there. Researchers said that Chicago, Toronto,…

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