Newfoundland and Labrador’s plastic waste washes up as far afield as Scotland, Spain and Portugal.
That’s just one of several valuable findings from a team of Memorial University researchers in a new study of the province’s plastic pollution trends from 1962-2019.
Over the past four years, Dr. Max Liboiron, the director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), and her laboratory monitored and looked for all research mentions of plastic in the province they could find.
They managed to find more than 50 sources, she says, which was substantial. But the mentions were often one-offs, and none of the findings spoke to each other.
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