Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: More than 11 million pounds of plastic pollutes Lake Michigan and its beaches annually. New technology is coming to the rescue.

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.

Not even the picnic table he pulled out of the Manitowoc Harbor earlier this month.

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