Our water sources are some of the most important resources we have in the world, so divers and volunteers came together in Kingston to clean up Lake Ontario’s shoreline on Saturday.
Pulling a large truck tire from the water, volunteer Derek Evans says he isn’t sure how long it’s been at the bottom of Lake Ontario. It’s filled with zebra mussels and mud, but the rubber has the potential to be a serious issue.
"Divers are sometimes the first and only witnesses of underwater pollution," Courcy says. "We’re going there, we see it. Who’s going to pick it up if it’s not us?"" will sink down and it will start disintegrating, especially plastics," he says. "Plastics will create microplastics and this will get into the food chain."
In its 4th year, more than 1,400 kilograms of garbage has been pulled out of Lake Ontario in that time.
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