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Einwegmasken als Pandemie-Dilemma: Tiere verheddern und strangulieren sich
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Pandemiemüll gefährdet Tiere: 1,5 Milliarden Einwegmasken landen in Meeren
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How discarded face masks are threatening wildlife, marine animals
By ANA Reporter
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Cape Town – While face masks and surgical gloves have been used globally to protect people during the Covid-19 pandemic, they are now posing a deadly threat to wildlife and marine animals.
Various countries have eased lockdown regulations, allowing people to once again return to work and use the beaches and other public spaces.
The new normal entails wearing a face mask and, in some cases, gloves; however, single-use masks and gloves are casually being discarded and are ending up in the ocean.
Environmental group OceansAsia reported that 1.56 billion masks ended up in oceans in 2020, according to an estimate based on the 52 billion masks globally produced.
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One thing 2020 will be remembered for: the emergence of the face mask as a way to help protect against COVID-19.
Facemarks masks first became ubiquitous across Asia around 2003 during the SARS epidemic. Jian Yu Hou has lived in the U.S. since 2015 and has authored articles on face masks for Chinese periodicals.
She was puzzled that Americans didn t embrace masks early on when news of the pandemic first came out of China. She says Chinese living in the U.S. had already begun stocking up. In January in New York City when I, when I told my New Yorker friends to buy some face masks, and they said, Oh, it s already sold out in Manhattan , and I told them, hey, try to get some in Brooklyn but Brooklyn also sold out.