NSTworld: Huge numbers of the facemasks are not disposed of properly, and have instead ended up dumped in the countryside or the sea, where marine life can mistake them for food. HongKong Coronavirus Covid19
Most of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million people have for weeks been putting on single-use face masks every day in the hope of warding off the coronavirus, which has infected 126 people in the city and killed three of them.
Environmental groups, already grappling with the flow of marine trash from mainland China and elsewhere, say the cast-off coronavirus masks have compounded the problem and also raised concern about the spread of germs. He said he initially found 70 discarded masks on 100 m stretch of beach and when he came back a week later, there were more than 30 new ones.Other beaches around the city tell a similar story, he said.
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