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ByOwen Sound Sun Times

The North Bay Battalion didn’t look like a team playing their third game in as many nights. The Troops marched into a snow-covered Scenic City Saturday night and jumped all over the Owen Sound Attack en route to snapping the Bears’ four-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. […]

Science report: US should make less plastic to save oceans

Science report: US should make less plastic to save oceans

ByGreat Lakes Now

Science report: US should make less plastic to save oceans

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of the material is littering the oceans and other waters, the National Academy of Sciences says in a new report.

The United States, the world’s top plastics waste producer, generates more than 46 million tons (42 million metric tons) a year, and about 2.2 billion pounds (1 million metric tons) ends up in the world’s oceans, according to the academy’s report.

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