Billions of castoff face masks: COVID debris threatens a global ecological disaster - World News
Follow I am a gleaner of tossed face masks. I carry a bag with me wherever I walk, collecting discarded single-use face masks lying in the streets or cast into bushes. Face masks of all colors and sizes: children's masks decorated with unicorns and emojis; wet masks covered in leaves, half-trampled, torn. I pick them up and bring them home. I'm not quite sure what to do with my collection, but I know I'm on a lonely mission: to clean scattered face masks off the streets of my small Israeli city of Modiin. For the past few months, as Israel has entered and exited lockdowns and gyms have clos...
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