A plastic pandemic: Why single-use face masks are polluting the global environment

[rangerrebew]

A plastic pandemic: Why single-use face masks are polluting the global environment

by Victoria SanchezWednesday, May 26th 2021
 
For nearly a year and a half, surgical masks have been a piece of the arsenal in the fight against COVID-19. While the face coverings keep us safe, researchers and environmentalists fear masks could create a plastic pandemic.

7News Health Reporter Victoria Sanchez began documenting discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) in early 2020. Face masks, rubber gloves, and sanitizing wipes are lightweight and would blow across parking lots, get stuck in trees and end up in storm drains.

Conservation and wildlife activist group OceansAsia is known to collect and document plastic trash around the globe. In February 2020, dozens of masks started washing up on beaches. Just two months later, the organization collected 135 masks in less than an hour on Soko Island in Hong Kong.

https://wjla.com/news/health/plastic-pandemic-single-use-face-masks-polluting-global-environment

[rangerrebew]

It's all Fauci's fault!!  Lock him you eco-warriors.

[Bigun]

It's all Fauci's fault!!  Lock him you eco-warriors.

[DCPatriot]

The 'Roomba' robot vacuum cleaner... the battery charged wet/dry vac for spilled milk and cereal on the floor in lieu of a couple of paper towels and windex...

Given these totally ridiculous inventions, you'd think somebody would invent "The Zapper", like in that older movie where sick and elderly are reduced to carbon, where these masks could be disposed.

Have each one guarded by somebody to ensure only facemasks are zapped.  Maybe somebody dressed in a Santa Suit.  I. Don't. Care.