aquascoot
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masks didnt do anything
except poison the planet
disgraceful stuff
how dare they
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) study, in USA about 89 billion medical masks are anticipated to be required to respond the COVID-19 as this crisis is likely to persist for some time (Xiang et al., 2020). Further, the plastic innovation hub has identified that the domestic demand for the mask in UK is around 24.37 billion per year (Liebsch, 2020). As of February 2020, China has raised its daily production of medical masks to 14.8 million. The Japanese ministry of finance, trade, and industry recorded that more than 600 million face masks required per month of April 2020 (Fadare and Okoffo, 2020). The increasing use of mask significantly increases the production of mask and it consumes higher amount of energy. A study by Klemeš et al., 2020a,b shows that a mask production consumes about 10-30 Wh energy and releases 59 g CO2-eq greenhouse gas to the environment. Further, ever increasing uses of face mask also increase the landfill and medical waste. Most of these face mask wastes contains either polypropylene and/or polyethylene, polyurethane, polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyacrylonitrile, which add plastic or microplastic pollution to the environment (Akber et al., 2020). This indicates that current ongoing pandemic, increases the environmental pollution and negative impact to human and animal health.
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