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A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters
Scott Wilson, The Washington Post
Dec. 11, 2020
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TIBURON, Calif. - The pale blue is easy to spot among the dry-brown reeds.
People walk here along the northern coast of the San Francisco Bay, crowding a path that bends to the contour of the shore. At the small pebble beach near a park called Blackies Pasture, a surgical mask is tangled in the marsh at the edge of the Bay. A little farther on is another, then another on the other side of the path, waiting to be blown into the sea.