The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

In the Great Lakes, plastic pollution along the shorelines poses a major challenge: 86% of litter collected on Great Lakes beaches is either partially or completely composed of plastic.

More PFAS news with New York’s proposed ban, an update on Wisconsin’s frozen “forever chemicals” funding, and how federal freezes are impacting chemical pollution grants in the Great Lakes.

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board says lakes Ontario and Michigan show greater ...

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

More than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution end up in the Great Lakes every year, according to the Rochester Institute ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

(Answer: 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes as a whole each year ... the bane of the particle pollution world. Pretty much impossible to filter out of Lake Erie, microplastics ...

INFORMATION on plastic pollution provided by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) should give all humans cause for great concern ... rivers, and lakes,” UNEP tells us.

Bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm long ... It remained the dominant issue in Great Lakes pollution through the early ‘90s, when hydrophobic organic chemicals came to the fore, said Joe Atkinson ...