Trash in US NPs? It's 81% plastic

Plastic items make up 81 percent of all waste found in the country’s national parks and other public lands, according to a report released Tuesday by an advocacy group.

The analysis, done by Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz, a community project that tracks plastic pollution in parks, focused on garbage picked up by more than 500 volunteers at 44 cleanups at National Park Service sites from July through September.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/plastic-makes-up-81-of-trash-in-national-parks-report-says/

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