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November 26, 2019 • 35 minutes

1: They're Also Called Nurdles

We learn all about microplastics and discuss an interesting business plan for the Chicago area.

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For a rough transcript of this show, please visit https://github.com/jscarlton/teachgreatlakes/blob/master/episode-1/tmatgl-1-transcript.markdown

Today’s hosts:
  • Stuart Carlton | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
  • Hope Charters | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant 
Today’s guests:
  • Sarah Zack | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
  • Carolyn Foley | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Links
  • Great Lakes Pollution Prevention (@GreatLakesP2) | Twitter
  • Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (@ILINSeaGrant) | Twitter
  • Hope’s personal feed (@hopekyra) | Twitter
  • Sarah's personal feed (@SarahAZack) | Twitter
  • xkcd: Hand Sanitizer
  • Mold-A-Rama - Wikipedia
  • A meta-analysis of the effects of exposure to microplastics on fish and aquatic invertebrates - ScienceDirect
  • Curriculum for teachers: What is the impact of beach litter?
Other credits

Podcast theme by Stuart Carlton. Interstitial music provided by Pepouni and by audionautix.com, both under a Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  — CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
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