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Trawling for Microplastics

posted by | 108sc
July 24, 2015

After 10 minutes of slow cruising, the net is hauled in using the ship’s rigging. The net’s exterior is then rinsed with filtered lake water before the compartment at its bottom is opened. “We don’t know the long-term consequences of them, but we suspect that they’re not good for the ecosystem,” Erdle says of microplastics.

Brigs alumni Lisa Erdle on board the STV Pathfinder collecting data for microplastics research

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/microplastics-at-alarming-levels-in-canadian-lakes-and-rivers-1.3157701

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/17/trawling-for-plastic.html

http://www.waterkeeper.ca/blog/2015/7/24/microplastics-sampling-with-lisa-erdle-and-toronto-brigantine-inc

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