Louise Knott Ahern, Detroit Free Press
Do you wash your face every night? Brush your teeth?
Of course you do. But your nightly beauty routine might be adding to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, and environmentalists are ramping up efforts to try to get you to change the products you use.
Some of the top Great Lakes scientists, researchers and activists gathered in Grand Rapids last week for the 10th Great Lakes Restoration Conference. One of the main topics of the conference every year is pollution and how to fix it.
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