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How to stop discarded face masks from polluting the planet


How to stop discarded face masks from polluting the planet
Personal protective equipment is made of plastic and isn t recyclable. Now it’s being found everywhere on earth, including the oceans. The solution isn’t complicated: Throw them away.
ByLaura Parker
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You’re out for your daily walk. You see a face mask on the ground. Few want to touch what has shielded someone’s potentially virus-laden breath. So there it lies until it blows away and that elemental problem is rapidly changing the landscape around the world, from grocery store parking lots to beaches on uninhabited islands.
Vaccines we mastered in record time to combat COVID-19. Litter in the time of the pandemic, it turns out, frustratingly defies solution. ....

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Discarded PPE littering beaches


Discarded PPE littering beaches
Published: April 13, 2021, 6:04am
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A discarded mask on a beach in Point Pleasant, N.J. (Associated Press)
SANDY HOOK, N.J. – To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand.
In the past year, volunteers picking up trash on beaches from the Jersey Shore to California, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have been finding discarded personal protective equipment.
The latest example came when New Jersey’s Clean Ocean Action environmental group released its annual tally of trash plucked from the state’s shorelines. In addition to the plastics, cigarette butts and food wrappers that sully the sand each year, the group’s volunteers removed 1,113 masks and other pieces of virus-related protective gear from New Jersey beaches last fall. ....

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