Garbage

By Victoria Witke

Christina Petalas, a doctoral student McGill University, studies herring gulls to learn about plastic pollution near the St. Lawrence River. Across two studies, she found plastic additives in every bird sampled, which could have human health consequences.

The post What herring gulls tell us about plastic pollution first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

"All that work is proceeding very well, and I'm very thankful to how quickly our staff have moved on a lot of this," said London Mayor Josh Morgan.

A Free Press reader finds faulty reasoning behind London council's justification for a 35-per-cent wage increase in their salaries.

They are puzzled why new provincial rules threaten to end blue box collection for non-residential buildings on residential pickup routes.

"If everyone put the energy used to rake leaves into cleaning up plastic and garbage, we could leave a better world for our children."

The goal is to open the shelters before the end of the year, though Mayor Josh Morgan stated that it is easier said than done.

Greasing the wheel

Dead-head, remove sunburned leaves and cut back some of the lilies and other plants

For two weekends each year, the number of people in the small village of Lucknow expands by thousands thanks to successful charity events run by the local Kinsmen Club. This is an instalment in Postmedia’s How Canada Wins series.

Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.

n the last five years Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Traverse City have all added officers tasked with building relationships with people living on the streets.

Volunteers removed 74.7 pounds of garbage from Station Beach during the event.