A worker at the French start-up Plaxtil handles used masks as they are prepared for recycling into plastic to make other products. Credit: Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images In March, Seattle was ...
A study from the University of Southern Denmark printed in March said there are an estimated 129 billion face masks used globally every month, which means there are 3 million masks being used per ...
In March, Seattle was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the parents of Yooni Kim, a retail worker, were worried about her. They sent her a package of disposable masks, and she began wearing ...
Disposable masks break into micro-sized plastic fibers that can take up to 450 years to decompose. (Photo: Getty Images) In Unearthed, Gen Z climate-change activists discuss some of the most pressing ...
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