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May 26, 2020
H.O.M.E.School Week 8: Plastic Pollution
This week, students will learn how the Great Lakes and the land around them – called the Great Lakes watershed or basin – are connected. What we do on the […]
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April 22, 2020
How Plastic-Free Can You Be? Earth Week Challenge
Each year, 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes, according to research by the Rochester Institute of Technology. Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, and even then […]
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March 18, 2020
Adopt-a-Beach Cleanups Suspended Until Early May
At the Alliance for the Great Lakes, our volunteers’ safety is our top priority. We have been monitoring developments with the COVID-19 virus and have made the decision to suspend […]
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February 25, 2020
Alliance Announces Exciting Updates to Adopt-a-Beach Website
While it’s been too cold for Adopt-a-Beach, we’ve been cooking up some big things here at the Alliance. We’re happy to share that this year, we are launching a new […]
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November 18, 2019
Adopt-a-Beach 2019
Our Adopt-a-Beach volunteers put in some serious work during the 2019 Adopt-a-Beach season. We had volunteers cleaning on all five Great Lakes in all eight Great Lakes states. And across […]
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September 23, 2019
Celebrating September Adopt-a-Beach
From Duluth, Minnesota to Rochester, New York—Parrotheads to university students—September Adopt-a-Beach brought together a large community of people who love the Great Lakes. September Adopt-a-Beach, part of the International Coastal […]
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July 8, 2019
Videos: Week without Single-Use Plastics
As an environmental nonprofit, we know a thing or two about plastic pollution. We wrote the Great Lakes plastic-free pledge, we developed a plastic-free toolkit for our advocates, we empower […]
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July 3, 2019
Celebrate a Plastic-Free 4th of July on the Great Lakes
July 3, 2019 (Chicago, IL) – Millions of people will be heading to their favorite beach to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday this week. But, plastic pollution is all […]
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June 18, 2019
Balloon Pollution in the Great Lakes
This spring saw an uptick in awareness of the problem of plastics in our lakes, including the fact that thousands of pounds of balloon remnants end up in the water […]
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June 5, 2019
7 Ways You Can Keep Plastic Out of the Great Lakes
More than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution ends up in the Great Lakes every year. On average, less than 20% of plastic is recycled globally. And plastic that’s discarded […]