Posted on 11/19/2020 4:21:37 PM PST by rktman
Discarded masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) have begun to wash into the San Francisco Bay with the arrival of the first winter rains, creating a new local pollution problem.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday:
The Bay Area’s first rain of the season is washing away worries of wildfire and drought. But it’s also bringing a new concern: gobs of face masks flooding San Francisco Bay.
Early season storms typically sweep a slurry of debris from streets and sidewalks into rivers, creeks and bays. This year, the fall flush not only contains the usual gunk, waste experts say, but a whole lot of discarded PPE — or personal protective equipment, the detritus of the pandemic.
This influx of safety scraps into waterways is tough to quantify. However, the California Coastal Commission offered at least some idea of the volume: The agency said there was so much PPE during this year’s September volunteer coastal cleanup and inventory that it had to create a new category for masks and gloves. The items ranked between plastic cups and beverage lids on the list of the top 15 types of litter.
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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! Suck it up, lefties!!
Right up there with condoms, needles and feces.
As opposed to used needles and condoms. . . .
For a “highly contagious and infectious virus”, where are all the bio-hazard containers?
I saw a whale I swear with a mask over it’s breathing hole....
They could just stuff them in the used needle boxes right?
ROFL
Leftists always expect others to clean up after them.
Well they banned straws to save the planet so maybe next ban PPE too
Pelosi doesn’t give a flying Obama.
next they’ll do to masks what they did to straws - outlaw them.
Lol, I’ve been wondering when we’d start hearing complaints of all those zillions of face masks clogging up landfills; I didn’t even think about them winding up in bodies of water. Ha ha, lefties.
We see them strewn aside a lot of place. How soon before we get to needing to check one out from the local health dept and accounting for it? Need a new one, better have the old one.
A Freeper reported he saw a women walking her dogs and she and her dogs had masks on!!
It occurred in Monkey county in The Peoples Republic of Maryland. Very believable. I live there and it’s nuts.
Lost my temper at the grocery store yesterday and called some stupid women a Karen and I’m not like that!!!! But I’m fed up!!
You can take the people out of the third world, but you can’t take the third world out of the people .... masks, PPE, needles, feces, .... MexiCal.
Liberals love the environment so it must be both the conservatives in San Francesspool doing this.
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