Plastic threat to Great Lakes


TINY bits of plastic are emerging as a threat to the United States’ Great Lakes. Large quantities of round pellets, mainly from health and beauty products, were among the plastic pieces researchers found in 2012 in Lake Erie, Lake Superior and Lake Huron.

In fact, some of the Lake Erie samples had more plastics than have been found in ocean samples.

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