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Covid masks and other single use plastic is polluting the Ocean at an alarming rate.
Non Recyclable Plastics
During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 28,000 tons of pandemic-related plastic waste, such as masks and gloves, have ended up in the ocean. What the heck, Humans know we need to stop polluting, yet humans continue to be destructive filthy and ignorant. Hell, even pigs are cleaner than humans.
That's more than 2,000 double-decker buses worth of waste. And within a few years, a portion of those plastic gloves and packaging materials from pandemic purchases could be swirling around the North Pole because of the world currents. The analysis found that 193 countries produced about 9.2 million tons of pandemic-associated plastic waste from the start of the pandemic to mid-August 2021.
The majority of the plastic — about 87.4% — was used by hospitals, while 7.6% was used by individuals. Packaging and test kits accounted for about 4.7% and 0.3% of the waste. Why is this trash being thrown into the oceans?
In about three years' time, the majority of the debris will shift from the surface of the ocean to beaches and the seafloor, with more than 70% washing onto beaches. While in the short-term, the trash will mostly effect coastal environments near its original sources, in the long-term, garbage patches may form in the open ocean, the scientific model predicts. For instance, patches may accumulate in the northeast Pacific and the southeast Indian oceans. And plastic that gets swept toward the Arctic Circle will hit a dead-end, and much of it will then swiftly sink to the seabed, the model predicts. The researchers also predict that a so-called circumpolar plastic accumulation zone will form by 2025. Scientists figure at the end of this century, that almost all the pandemic-associated plastics end up in either the seabed (28.8%) or beaches (70.5%), potentially hurting the benthic ecosystems," meaning the deepest regions of the ocean, humans have to contaminate even the deepest and remote places on earth.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased demand for single-use plastic, intensifying pressure on this already out-of-control problem, of single use plastic, an issue that countries are trying to stop. These findings highlight the hotspot rivers and watersheds that require special attention in plastic waste management. There is no reason that covid masks etc are ending up in the ocean period.
Developing countries need to stop throwing garbage into the oceans, the collection and disposing of medical plastic waste in developing countries, is horrible. They need to keep it out of rivers, and an overall need to limit the use of single-use plastics and increase the use of sustainable alternatives, This is something all countries need to address and do a better job of, they need to stop the polluting methods.
It’s a pretty simple solution to this issue, I don’t understand, its simple to fix the problem, but humans continue to degrade the planet. Humans are an ignorant lot. And when they kill off most of the planet they have no one to blame but their selves.
Humans know whats killing the planet but they continue to deforest the rainforests at a faster rate even after they learned about climate change. Its all about money I guess, they would rather have a fancy home and jewels than have drinkable water and clean air. And Humans are supposed to be intelligent life forms.
No wonder aliens have not presented themselves to earthlings, they cant believe earthlings are so ignorant.
Tammy
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