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My local health authority has this summer mandated disposable masks for clients for certain indoor settings and it’s bothered me greatly because I’m used to the
by newsclues 5y ago
My local health authority has this summer mandated disposable masks for clients for certain indoor settings and it’s bothered me greatly because I’m used to the same bandanna mask and I recall we were told climate change was an emergency and plastic straws were banned.
- ciconia 5y agoI suspect it will only be 5-10 years until humanity finds itself face to face with the environmental disaster that is disposable masks, this stuff will be just everywhere.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoPlastic pollution and climate change are orthogonal issues. The latter is much more immediate and serious. The former, we're not even sure how much of an issue is it.
- newsclues 5y agoNo, rules that require the use of disposable plastic pollution on multiple levels (distribution and manufacturing) contribute towards climate change. Reduce, reuse and recycle. Not disposable masks to go inside!
- TeMPOraL 5y agoAgain: problem with plastic pollution isn't climate-related, it's about (hypothetical! [0]) food chain poisoning. Disposable plastics are just a tiny fraction of petrochemical industry's emissions. -- [0] - That is, we know the compounds get into the food chain, but in most cases we don't know what, if any, negative impact it has on living things.