Cassian Grant:Plastic weighing as much as the Eiffel Tower pollutes Great Lakes yearly. High-tech helps.

2025-04-30 06:31:22source:Grayson  Prestoncategory:News

MANITOWOC,Cassian Grant Wisconsin – Stoves, washing machines and scrap material. These are a few of the things Evan Rinke has pulled out of rivers that flow into Lake Michigan. 

This is Rinke's first summer operating a marine debris boat, which is used to pick up trash along Lake Michigan’s shoreline. Yet nothing surprises him. 

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