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Tons of plastic trash enter the Great Lakes every year – where does it go?

  • Written by Matthew J. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Debris pulled from a Lake Erie marina during a cleanup, June 9, 2012.NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, CC BY

Awareness is rising worldwide about the scourge of ocean plastic pollution, from Earth Day 2018 events to the cover of National Geographic magazine. But few people realize that similar concentrations of plastic pollution are accumulati...

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