because people who grew up around Great Lakes and go to the beach don't want to go to beach that's dirty and littered by plastic items. Scientists are also seeing evidence that the microbeads are ...

But beneath that pristine image, there's a barely visible threat, says Jennifer Caddick of the Alliance for the Great Lakes: microbeads. These tiny bits of plastic, small scrubbing components used ...

Environmentalists say the microbeads are a danger to fish. Products containing the word %22polyethylene%22 likely have microbeads. Tiny%2C plastic beads from personal ...

Turns out, when it comes to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, microbeads aren't necessarily the big bad. A new study published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows that tiny ...

A report earlier this year conducted by SUNY Fredonia found anywhere from 1,500 to 1.1 million microbeads per square mile in the Great Lakes. When asked what amount of plastic pollution would be ...

Good for Illinois. Plastic microbeads have been running off by the billions into the Great Lakes and the oceans, causing huge amounts of environmental damage. Yet most consumers didn’t even ...

Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing ...

Also, while it's unknown where the ocean plastic came from, microscopic examination of Great ... microbeads. For anglers who regularly feast on salmon, perch and other delicacies from the lakes ...

Several months ago, scientists warned that tiny microbeads, a common ingredient in facial cleansers, were flowing into the Great Lakes, with no way to remove the potentially harmful plastic.

“Tiny trash” — plastic, foam and glass pieces measuring approximately 1 inch or less — accounts for 40% of litter found in the Great Lakes, the alliance report said. In the last ...

But this year's focus was even smaller: the discovery two years ago that the Great Lakes are full of tiny, plastic microbeads from personal care products like facial cleansers. Researchers can't ...