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in disposable facemasks. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill has more. a grim but familiar sight in many urban waterways. how many different types of plastic are just floating here? yeah, i can see easily one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. seven or eight different types of plasticjust here. and it is the wildlife that inhabits these waterways that is living with and living in our rubbish. these images, submitted by members of the public and collected by scientists, show the global extent of the problem. scientists ask people to upload photographs and reports of birds tangled or nesting in rubbish. we have got about 400 reports covering every continent, except antarctica. so literally everywhere. and then covid happened and all of a sudden we have all of these submissions facemasks, surgical gloves. is a mask or ppe item,
and nearly a quarter of the photographs show them nesting or entangled in disposable face masks. our science correspondent victoria gill has more. a grim but familiar sight in many urban waterways. how many different types of plastic are just floating here? yeah, i can see easily one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. seven or eight different types of plasticjust here. and it is the wildlife that inhabits these waterways that is living with and living in our rubbish. these images, submitted by members of the public and collected by scientists, show the global extent of the problem. scientists asked people to upload photographs and reports of birds tangled or nesting in rubbish. we have got about 400 reports covering every continent, except antarctica. so literally everywhere. and then covid happened and all of a sudden we have all of these submissions facemasks, surgical gloves.
scientists ask people to upload photographs and reports of birds tangled or nesting in rubbish. we have got about 400 reports covering every continent, except antarctica. so literally everywhere. and then covid happened and all of a sudden we have all of these submissions of facemasks, surgical gloves. is a mask or ppe item, is that more of an environmental problem than a plastic bag or plastic bottle? yeah, so a mask is not just one thing. you think about it, you have the ear loops which are made of elastic, you have got sheeting on them, you have got the rigid piece of flexible plastic that fits over your nose. so you have a whole bunch of ways that wildlife can seemingly interact with it. in some cases, like this one in stratford upon avon, nature lovers have been able to help. 0h, perfect, well done.