what appeared to be pristine sand |herring gull string mouth | every year millions of | noticed myriad pieces of trash enmeshed in the sand |“Every beach has its own | 11 million pounds of plastic – | No glass containers | the most polluted of the Great Lakes | gull prints in frost
e. coli beach scare | 24,275 gallons of stormwater | from water intakes to shipwrecks | gobbled up phytoplankton |waterweed rings | 11 million pounds of plastic | crocs half buried | a mix of cobblestones | diving to collect samples | NO COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
the state Environmental | cascade | abrasions that might happen internally in the lining of the guts | bottom-dwelling census | YOU ARE HERE | microplastics | starved gulls washed ashore | requires a fundamental transformation | ravine and pollutants | microplastics
doesn’t biodegrade, | do you think there are plastic bits in | green infrastructure | nigh heron shit wading | along the supply chain | ice cresting over | New Lighthouse Parking Lot | in the guts of many Lake Michigan fish | plovers do not | isn’t enough | zero-waste goal
glass sliver in a heron’s throat | COOLERS WELCOME | genetic biocontrol | “invasive mussels are also probably part of | can be treated as disposable,” | is not required to test for | Plastics are | green infrastructure | surgical mask | wooden cigarillo tips | a beautiful city
Articles used:
Briscoe, Tony. “22 Million Pounds of Plastics Enter the Great Lakes Each Year. Most of the Pollution Pours into Lake Michigan.” Chicago Tribune, September 4, 2019.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-met-lake-michigan-plastic-pollution-20190904-2xf3qogqv5bpfco2plndapak2q-story.html
Clark, William. “Lake Michigan Plastic Pollution Poses Ecological and Social Threats.” The Daily Northwestern. January 27, 2021.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/01/27/city/lake-michigan-plastic-pollution-poses-ecologicaland-social-threats/
Greene, Morgan. “An Estimated 300 Trillion Invasive Mussels Blanket Lake Michigan. Eradication May Be Impossible, But Small-Scale Removal Efforts Could Be the Answer.” Chicago Tribune, August 1, 2021.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-lake-michigan-invasive-mussels-20210730-ucfuojar7nckpofre2efdpalkq-story.html
Monnin, Patrick. “The Scariest Monster in Lake Michigan is Plastic.” Loyola Phoenix. December 4, 2019.
https://loyolaphoenix.com/2019/12/the-scariest-monster-in-lake-michigan-is-plastic/