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A new ‘Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act’, that is in the works, would require all in-state Minnesota packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2032.
The rest, Koudelka says--- more than 3 million tons--- ends up in waste treatment facilities or landfills every year.
Extended producer responsibility laws have been adopted in four states–and a bill could make Minnesota the fifth.
We're living in an invisible miasma of microplastics. What's it doing to human health?
Listen to the Environment Report here. This plastic debris was typical along a channel which connects Lake Michigan and Duck Lake north of Muskegon. Credit Lester Graham / Michigan Radio 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 Rochester Institute of Technology estimates 22 million pounds of plastic debris enters the Great Lakes from the U.S. and Canada each year. Lynn Knopf with Duck Creek Watershed Assembly snaps a photo of some of the volunteers who showed up to pick up trash a...