COVID-19 and the Flurry of Plastic Waste

All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic.

Rob Picheta writing for CNN, Coronavirus is causing a flurry of plastic waste. Campaigners fear it may be permanent:

PPE has become an additional threat to the world's oceans, which have been choking under the weight of plastic at a rapidly increasing rate.

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Rob Picheta writing for CNN, Coronavirus is causing a flurry of plastic waste. Campaigners fear it may be permanent:

PPE has become an additional threat to the world's oceans, which have been choking under the weight of plastic at a rapidly increasing rate.

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