Plastic Pandemic
WASHINGTON – The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has utterly derailed global efforts to reduce single-use plastic.
The pandemic has made masks part of our lives. But billions of them, plus other plastic-based personal protection equipment (PPE), for health and hospital workers – and on top of that, more plastic food containers – are disposed of and find their way into landfills and often, oceans.
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