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Face masks and other litter drift on the sea. (Provided by OceansAsia) IZUMISANO, Osaka Prefecture The skyrocketing use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the immediate and long-term threat of plastic waste to life in the oceans. Many nonwoven fabric, urethane and other available face masks are made of plastics, such as polypropylene and polyurethane. These and other synthetic fibers can take centuries to decompose in the natural environment. One environmental group estimated that more than 1.5 billion face masks entered oceans in the year when the pandemic started. Officials of the Kanagawa Coastal Environmental Foundation said the volume of face masks drifting ashore has increased since the onset of the pandemic. For 30 years, the foundation has been cleaning a 150-kilometer stretch of coastline in the prefecture, which lies southwest of Tokyo.

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