Microplastics are turning up everywhere, including our water, our food, and even our bodies. And the Great Lakes are no ...

A Lancaster County science fair champion has earned international honors for developing a fishing lure that won’t contribute ...

Instead of microbeads, she zeroed in on microfibers ... keep pumping more and more" microplastics into the Great Lakes. "The problem with plastic pollution is much more significant and of greater ...

While invasive species in the Great Lakes has long been a concern, “I was shocked to find out about this plastic, these microbeads, getting through the filtration systems and into the lake ...

“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 ...

Environmental groups are concerned for the safety of both humans and wildlife as small plastic microbeads found in commonly used cosmetics have started to become significant pollutants in the Great ...

At just 17 years old, Jackson Riegler started a project that transformed plastic into clothing. Jackson, a Muskegon native, was inspired by the Great Lakes at a young age. In high school ...

"The microbeads from toothpaste ... Writ large, plastics pose a huge problem for the Great Lakes, said Jacobs, who noted that 2,500 metric tons of plastic end up in Lake Erie each year, while ...

For example, the 1972 U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement designated 43 heavily ... packaging and distribution of personal care items and toiletries containing plastic microbeads such as ...

For example, the 1972 U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement designated ... personal care items and toiletries containing plastic microbeads such as facial scrubs and toothpastes.

We know the scale of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes is bigger than the individual ... federal government followed with the banning of microbeads. Now, we must take on the whole plastics ...

Plastic debris makes up about 80% of the litter on Great Lakes shorelines ... some soaps and facial scrubs contained microbeads that were rinsed down the drain into waterways.