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Discarded masks, gloves and other personal protection
equipment (PPE) being used with the COVID-19 pandemic are piling up in the
oceans and in parks, streets, parking lots and other public places. In Europe,
divers found so many gloves, masks and bottles of hand sanitizer in the
Mediterranean Sea that they predicted that, soon, there will be more masks than
jellyfish in the waters.
In the U.S., a Washington Post writer photographed hundreds
of discarded gloves and masks in Virginia, Maryland and all four quadrants of
Washington in parks, gardens, tennis courts, bike paths, bus stops, Metro
escalators, libraries, gutters and myriad other places including along the
banks of the Potomac River.
SOURCES:
The
Guardian June 8, 2020
The
Washington Post July 5, 2020