Millions of pieces of microplastics

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... litter the Great Lakes. ES earch "No suitable matches were found". For word "microplastics". In the newz now:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...f-microplastics-litter-the-great-lakes/66972/

In part:

Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 4:34 PM - A professor at the University of Waterloo suggests there are at least half-a-million pieces of plastic per square kilometre in some parts of the Great Lakes, equivalent to 2,500 pieces of plastic per area the size of a football field.

Hans Durr, a professor with the Ecohydrology Research Group, told the CBC the tiny bits of plastic are a "serious threat" to the Great Lakes.

Watt problem has been known about for some time:
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(Sigh. And elsewhere on this planet?)