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Midwesterner. Pulitzer finalist. Dig into environment/public health for @chicagotribune. EPL/NBA/MLB obsessive. Victoria Concordia Crescit.
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Illinois law is the first in the Great Lakes region to designate industrial plastic pellets as pollution

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By Michael Hawthorne Verified
| The News Herald (Southgate, MI) Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Companies that manufacture, use or transport nurdles also must develop plans to limit them in storm runoff, making the state the first in either watershed to officially designate bits of wasted plastic as pollution. The new law, signed late last week by Gov.
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Illinois law is the first in the Great Lakes region to designate industrial plastic pellets as pollution

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By Michael Hawthorne Verified
| Oakland Press Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Companies that manufacture, use or transport nurdles also must develop plans to limit them in storm runoff, making the state the first in either watershed to officially designate bits of wasted plastic as pollution. The new law, signed late last week by Gov.
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Illinois law is the first in the Great Lakes region to designate industrial plastic pellets as pollution

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By Michael Hawthorne Verified
| Macomb Daily Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Companies that manufacture, use or transport nurdles also must develop plans to limit them in storm runoff, making the state the first in either watershed to officially designate bits of wasted plastic as pollution. The new law, signed late last week by Gov.
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