Posted on 12/08/2020 8:47:01 AM PST by Ebenezer
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Masks, gloves, and disinfectant-soap containers used for protection against the COVID-19 pandemic have begun to have an adverse effect on the environment.
According to [the Puerto Rican newspaper] El Vocero, masks and gloves have been seen floating over bodies of water and reaching the shore.
"We see them floating as if they were jellyfish. The problem is that, everywhere one goes, one has to have masks, gloves, etc. Even face shields have been spotted. If they're not picked up, they'll eventually make it to water. If not, they reach the coast through the wind and reach the middle (of the ocean), the mouth of a river through runoff. Although not coming directly, they reach a body of water those ways," Dr. Samuel Suleiman Ramos, Executive Director of the Marine Environment Society, pointed out.
Suleiman stated that, at the beginning of the pandemic when the [Puerto Rico] government decreed a total shutdown, there was no such impact because people were in their homes.
This synthetic material takes a long time to degrade and many marine species and birds confuse them with everyday objects and, in many cases, will choke, asphyxiate, or get strangled.
"The issue with masks and other solid wastes is that we have the bad habit of throwing them away and not disposing of them adequately, which makes everything ugly. Seagulls and turtles are affected, and it's a lack of conscience above all, because all this about masks was unheard of prior to the pandemic. The less conscience, the more damage done," he declared.
The [Puerto Rico] Department of Natural and Environmental Resources confirmed the existence of these items in the environment and urged residents to have greater conscience when disposing of them.
"It's important to point out that these materials pose a danger to marine species and alter the ecosystems once they reach bodies of water. We work to protect and conserve our environment, but citizen collaboration is indispensable to be successful. We don't want to see our beaches with glass or plastic bottles, masks, gloves, or plastic balls. We aim to have beaches free of wastes with a notable reduction in garbage generated; that can be accomplished with the help from each citizen," he affirmed.
Puerto Rico ping
Never mind the millions of gallons of disinfectant we’ve been dumping on ourselves for months.
Questions we are not allowed to ask of “our betters”:
1) If masks are so effective why are “cases” still rising?
2) If masks are so effective why aren’t they collected in red biohazard bins?
I only use the disinfectant to wipe down equipment I’m about to use in the gym. (And after I finish with it). The rest of the time I stick to good ole soap and water.
Disinfectant is mostly just alcohol. The environment is pretty well equipped to break down alcohol.
Can’t help but wonder what damage we’re doing by getting rid of the good bacteria along with the bad bacteria by washing hands so much....
I am starting to see masks in every parking lot I pull into. Some are the cheap surgical looking blue masks. And some are the cloth masks. It seeing them every where. Of course people are afraid to pick them up because they think they are infected with the rona.
I see a LOT of discarded masks when I run errands or when
I’m out for a walk.
Marko
See masks quite often along the roads where I walk. Parking lots too.
I used to break it down pretty well too.
Then it broke me lol.
Discarded masks are super handy. There’s always half a dozen lying in the Kroger parking lot whenever I need one.
I don’t understand the correlation but it seems with the increase of trash masks on the ground there has been a decrease of used condoms laying around.
Discarded masks are super handy. There’s always half a dozen lying in the Kroger parking lot whenever I need one.
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Ewww! :-0
Used masks are about as sanitary as used toilet paper.
Now go write a country song about it :)
Here is a letter I sent to Gov Abbott, and not heard back from....
WE NEED DESPERATE ACTION!!!!
WE DON’T HAVE WHAT WE NEED IN STORES??? That’s unbelievable!
Why can’t there be plant(s) producing what we need…….ready to go boxed ‘cleaners, gloves, masks, good sanitizers, Lysol, bleach, etc’ ready to pick up or delivered, like hospitals get.
PICK UP…….And include bio hazard bags to put stuff in, instead of throwing on the ground.
Each neighborhood could have a paid person to pick up bio bags and take them to a burning facility.
Please, something has to be done now! What ever the cost!
Any thoughts??
Correct. too much hand sanitizer. My body has absorbed so much when I pee it cleans the toilet.
Nelson Ha Ha!
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