Great Lakes microplastics: How they get there, how they spread, and why the picture remains murky

Great Lakes microplastics: How they get there, how they spread, and why the picture remains murky

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The plastic showing up in the Great Lakes doesn’t arrive in one dramatic spill. It slips in piece by piece — blown off land, flushed through sewers, shed from everyday products and often weathered to bits — until it becomes nearly impossible to track.