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22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes every year
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/22-million-pounds-plastic-debris-enters-great-lakes-every-yearWelcome to the latest edition of Planet Plastic, in which we find that not only are our oceans rife with plastic pollution, but our greatest of lakes suffer the indignity as well.
Such is the conclusion of a new study from the Rochester Institute of Technology that inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes. And while the news is grim, it will hopefully prove helpful with future cleanup efforts and targeting pollution prevention.
The researchers found that around 10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds) of plastic debris enter the Great Lakes annually, the plastic pollution comes courtesy of both the United States and Canada.
"This study is the first picture of the true scale of plastic pollution i
