Posted on 07/30/2021 4:10:32 PM PDT by george76
An estimated 1.6 billion disposable masks wound up in the ocean in 2020, creating a vast pile of floating plastic waste and threatening marine life across the planet.
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The throwaway masks sent 5500 metric tonnes of plastic into the oceans, which will take up to 450 years to biodegrade
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In China, an estimated 450 million disposable masks were manufactured every day during the height of the pandemic in April 2020.
The looming environmental catastrophe prompted one French ecologist to warn last year: “Soon there will be more masks than jellyfish.”
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So who’s dumping all these masks in the ocean? American garbage goes to landfills, not the ocean.
Shopping Bags replaced very quickly by Masks ,LOL
Yep! Couldn’t see that coming. /s
In a generation or so, archeologists will find a layer of masks, gloves, what have you. They will wonder what in the heck happened.
I see masks in the streets all the time
I keep a box of disposable masks in the car. Every once in a while, one just accidentally falls out of my car in the parking lot. Darn.
They want masks. I’ll give them masks.
It’s obviously the Chinese or the Russians, whoever’s the enemy right now.
I am just kidding.
Fish could wear them, just saying.
Parking lots everywhere are now hazmat contaminated zones.
My masks are all laying around on the front seat of my car.
I burned one and it was pretty disgusting! It sort of melted and congealed at the same time!
It was one of the “free” ones that arrived in our mailbox way back when ... a “gift” from China ... yeah, not wearing those!
Bag Ladies are now Mask Ladies
They on the road like dead possums.
Will it also degrade the virus or will it resurrect it after that time?
But if only one of da chillin’s is saved...
So just a few years longer than all those McDonalds styrofoam Big Mac containers that were going to doom humanity a decade ago?
Researchers from Visual Capitalist found that 3 per cent of the 52 billion disposable single-use masks produced to curb the Covid-19 pandemic found their way into the sea.
The throwaway masks sent 5500 metric tonnes of plastic into the oceans, which will take up to 450 years to biodegrade, the group said.
So a multi ton steel ship tskes about 120 years to desolve, but a polycotton mask that cant stop a virus is somehow irresistible to seawater? Thank goodness a reputable, no-one ever heard of, headuptheirasses researchers from what I can only assume is a bunch of Greta-Karens just throwing darts at a assine number of nearly half a millenium is taken as legit by the nettards of Yahoo.
baloney
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