Posted on 12/29/2020 12:36:03 PM PST by Onthebrink
An Estimated 1.5 billion disposable face masks will end up in the oceans this year according to a Hong Kong-based conservation organization.
OceansAsia based its estimate on 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020 to meet the demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Their report also says that a “conservative” calculation means at least 3 percent of them will be washed out to sea.
“Single-use face masks are made from a variety of meltblown plastics and are difficult to recycle due to both composition and risk of contamination and infection,” the report says.
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I guess the fish will wear them.
But that’s ok. If it saves just one life...
I know from walking around our country roads masks are as numerous as beer cans and cigarette packages on the shoulder.
So the environmentalists will sue and get them banned. We should have thought of this long ago.
Biden is about to READ a prepared speech written for him about his covid response? WTF, he has nothing to do with this.
I live in a coastal town. These masks are everywhere on the ground in grocery store parking lot etc. At the beginning people were throwing their plastic gloves on the ground also. I could see the way it was going.
Why cant people simply put them in hazardous waste containers that are everywhe........ Oh, not hazardous waste? 😒😯😷
Hiking trails! Who the heck goes hiking with those infernal masks?
Just wit until the next Congress is sworn in. I betcha dollars to donuts they pass another stimulus bill with a few billion dollars to clean up the masks in the oceans.
Maybe if the sea turtles wear these discarded masks, the discarded plastic soda straws won’t get stuck in their noses!
But there’s no more straws...we’re even...
All from Asia
I was on the PCT in King’s Canyon in July and they were wearing masks all over. People would step off the trail and put their masks on and avoid eye contact until I passed. It was as if eye contact could be a vector of transmission. I would laugh because we are 50 miles from the nearest road, you might bump into 60 people in a day, and then they were acting as if every person they met was an active carrier.
I was just throwing mine in the dump.
Didn’t know you needed to save them up until your next Florida vacation to dispose of them properly.
If they ever make a remake of The Planet of the Apes, the Clint Eastward character will have to wade through a bunch of masks to see the remains of the Statue of Liberty.
Wrong thread my FRiend?
Sad
If we are to assume everyone is sick then why aren’t there biohazard bins to toss these things in?
Went to a store the other day and one of the checkers had on two masks, a face shield, platex gloves, and what appeared to be a makeshift overall made out of a garbage can bag.
This is ridiculous...
They flush down easily.
Charlton Heston was the star. Not Clint.
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