Lake Champlain’s creatures feed on diet of plastic ‘microtrash’

A ruler marked in millimeter increments shows the size of these “nurdles,” tiny and relatively uniform but unidentified pieces of gray rubber found throughout Lake Champlain.
Plastic fibers, apparently from people’s clothing, are accumulating in Lake Champlain fish, plankton and birds, according to a SUNY Plattsburgh professor who’s researching tiny trash ingested by the lake’s aquatic organisms.
The fibers are suspected of introducing harmful substances like heavy