More Masks than Jellyfish?

More Masks than Jellyfish?

The Covid-19 Pandemic not only caused enormous harm to human lives and economies, the environment also suffered as well.  For all the right reasons, we switched "back" to one-time use products (take out containers, PPEs). Billions of masks and gloves are used and disposed of every day - where would they end up?

Scientists in Europe and Asia have already found "a glut of" discarded single-used masks and gloves washing up the shoreline and littering the seabed.  

What can we each do to help?

 

More Masks than Jellyfish: 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/08/more-masks-than-jellyfish-coronavirus-waste-ends-up-in-ocean

How face masks, gloves and other coronavirus waste are polluting the ocean:

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-face-masks-gloves-and-other-coronavirus-waste-are-polluting-ocean

 

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