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Researchers Float Orange Water Bottles On Lake Ontario

Trying to figure out where plastics end up

You may see orange water bottles floating in Lake Ontario. 

And if you do, you should probably leave them alone .

They were actually put there on purpose and aren’t yet another example of plastic pollution in our Great Lakes.

The bottles have GPS trackers attached to them so that University of Toronto researchers can track where litter in Toronto Harbour ends up.  

The researchers are trying to identify potential accumulation zones.

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