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A new study of one of Canada’s most urbanized rivers suggests it dumps the equivalent of about 18 cars worth of microplastics into Lake Ontario every year, a finding that shocked the lead author and ...

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Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that Toronto’s Don River carries over 500 billion microplastic particles into Lake Ontario each year – equal to about 36,000 kilograms, or the ...

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