By CHIFUMI SHINYA/ Staff Writer
April 3, 2020 at 08:00 JST
Pieces of trash collected from the bottom of Akanoi Bay of Lake Biwako in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, in June 2019 (Provided by the Shiga prefectural government)
OTSU--Plastic accounts for more than 70 percent of waste on the bottom of Lake Biwako and poses a serious threat to species in Japan’s largest freshwater body, a survey showed. [Read More]
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