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Tonight at 5:30: Pandemic pollution: Discarded face masks turning up everywhere


Tonight at 5:30: Pandemic pollution: Discarded face masks turning up everywhere
Graham Johnson
© Jeff Chiu
A discarded face mask lies in the street in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Disposable masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment have safeguarded untold lives during the pandemic. They’re also creating a worldwide environmental problem, littering streets and sending an influx of harmful plastic into landfills and oceans. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
They are the tumbleweeds of our time.
Discarded face masks are turning up everywhere.
“When you get a windy day like this, you can step out and it’s gone instantly, you don’t even know where it went,” said Kris Clark of Oceans Blue Corp, a nonprofit focused on marine debris. ....

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