During a walk around his block in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mark Benson was struck by how much discarded gloves and masks he saw on his short route.
Two Chicago residents recently sent him data to show the amount of PPE littered in the span of a few blocks. Gloves, masks and wipes are all plastic. When that's discarded into the environment, it goes into sewer systems or water bodies. It breaks down into microplastics, which still attract pesticides and other harmful chemicals. So when the marine animals eat it, they don't just get the plastic, they get the chemicals too.Other experts agree: This is a growing environmental hazard.
"Even if they are plastic, they are not treated as curbside recycling," David Biderman, executive director and CEO of the Solid Waste Association of North America , said."You bag it to prevent the environmental harm. They should be placed in a securely tight garbage bag and be put out with the regular trash for collection."
"We're doing it more often than we have to," Zambrotta said."We have to take out possibly contaminated PPE which wasn't even supposed to be in there."
Ph people keeps balbbering about how bad the government for them. But do they even realize their own low IQ level is the thing that is worse.
N95: The greatest irony in our life.
Ha! Finally, someone noticed the elephant in the room. “Earth is healing” is not true, unfortunately. Imagine all the disposable masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment that are discarded every day by almost the entire humanity because of COVIDー19 ... Billions.
Our street sweepers should also be protected. Transmission of the virus must be stopped.
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