Face masks have littered streets, piled up in landfill sites, and entangled birds since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.That leaves many individuals and businesses with stockpiles of excess face masks.
Face masks, especially the single-use, disposable kind, are littering the planet in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the height of the pandemic, with much of the world imposing mandates to limit the spread of Covid-19, some 130 billion disposable masks were being used each month.
"With the apparent need for face masks having fallen away, the IWMSA would caution individuals and organisations with excess stocks of masks to not simply bin them, as this could exacerbate the negative environmental impact that discarded masks have already had over the last few years," Jewaskiewitz told Business Insider SA.
BISouthAfrica Mine's staying put on my face. Above all else, these cities smell like sewers with all the shit & piss on pavements