A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters
A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters Scott Wilson, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail TIBURON, Calif. - The pale blue is easy to spot among the dry-brown reeds. People walk here along the northern coast of the San Francisco Bay, crowding a path that bends to the contour of the shore. At the small pebble beach near a park called Blackies Pasture, a surgical mask is tangled in the marsh at the edge of the Bay. A little farther on is another, then another on the other side of the path, waiting to be blown into the sea.