A northeastern Wisconsin college has recently received over a quarter of a million dollars in funding to study the Great Lakes.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was awarded $330,000 in grant funding from SC Johnson to study the impact microplastics in Lake Michigan and the Bay of Green Bay have on aquatic life.
Key aspects of the study will investigate how often fish swallow these plastics, what kinds of plastics are common, and where the biggest problem areas are…