microplastics

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement needs to be updated to address the urgent issue of microplastic pollution. Scientists suspect high levels of microplastics in the Great Lakes because they are landlocked, and closer to people, which are the main source of plastic pollution.

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Scientists want the U.S. and Canada to designate microplastics as a “chemical of mutual concern," adding them to a list of contaminants that both countries must monitor.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are using "bacterial sex" to program bacteria found in wastewater plants to break down microplastics.

In Canada, no rule or law prevents many unmonitored and invisible substances -or "contaminants of emerging concern"- from entering our water, including the Great Lakes.

As researchers learn more about the hazards of plastics and microplastics in the Great Lakes, it's becoming clear Canada and the U.S. need to cooperate in stopping the pollution.

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Researchers at the University of Toronto found a filter can remove 87 percent of microfibers from the drain water.

There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But plastic pollution is also affecting the Great Lakes. A study out of the…

Microplastic pollution has been building up in the Great Lakes for at least four decades, but our understanding of its impact on fish and other aquatic…