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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The solution is simple. Ban PPE like they did straws and problem solved. Boom!
“Right up there with condoms, needles and feces.”
Those are not “washed up”..they’re readily available in the streets of SF.
“You can’t make this stuff up.” Where’s the Ha Ha Guy?
For a “highly contagious and infectious virus”, where are all the bio-hazard containers?
Not at the exits to the following requiring that we wear masks while in their places of business, treatment or sales/work areas:
Hospitals, clinics, medical labs, pharmacies, health care stores, grocery stores, hardware stores, fast foods and ??????~!
They can use them to wipe up the poop.
I know a good one. He once removed a Titleist from a whale’s blow hole.
Yeah... repurpose those mouth diapers into actual pooper-picker-uppers.
I think that’s what the kids call “up cycling,” lol.
You aren’t a one-track thinker simpleton by any chance are you? What does this Bay Area stuff have to do with the third world, especially Mexico?
Nah - they don’t use condoms there....
My entire family was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, back when Character Was King.
Many, many moons ago, when Willie Brown was still in charge of all of Kalifornia, there was one election where an entire ballot box, full of ballots, was found floating in San Francisco Bay. No one batted an eye.
God Speed President Donald Trump to combat and overcome the Evil among us.
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