About 1.6 billion disposable masks wound up in the ocean last year. This has resulted in a massive pile of floating plastic waste that threatens marine life.
Visual Capitalist researchers have found that about 3% of the 52 billion single-use masks that had been manufactured to prevent Covid-19 infection eventually found their way into the seas.
The disposable masks were the reason behind about 5500 metric tonnes of plastic wastes in oceans. It will take more than 450 years to biodegrade this, the...
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