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Monday, September 23, 2019, 5:45am
By Hope Kirwan

Ongoing research at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse finds microplastics could be an unseen problem in the upper Mississippi River. The study found up to 11 pieces of plastic contamination per cubic meter of water.

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