Museum display to focus on plastic pollution in waters

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) - A museum exhibit will describe the problem of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes and the oceans, as well as efforts to find solutions.

The "Plastic Water" program will be held at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills from Tuesday through March 15.

It was created by the Alliance for the Great Lakes and the California-based 5 Gyres Institute.

The display has artifacts 5 Gyres has gathered from sailing expeditions to research plastic pollution. They include a raft made from plastic bottles, a 500-pound mass of tangled fishing nets and line, and a 35-pound clump of plastics bags pulled from a camel's stomach.

The exhibit tells about volunteers who gather trash from Great Lakes shorelines and efforts to ban tiny plastic microbeads in personal care products.

___

Online: http://www.greatlakes.org/plasticsexhibit