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Newsela | Instructional Content Platform

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Estimated 1.56 billion face masks will have entered oceans in 2020 - OceansAsia Report

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Our oceans will be flooded with an estimated 1.56 billion face masks in 2020 says a report released today by Hong-Kong-based marine conservation organization OceansAsia.

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As we have been mentioning, today is Earth Day.

While carbon emissions and climate change are front and center, this is a good moment to look at another major environmental problem.

As the world has become hyper-hygienic since the pandemic began, plastic is playing an oversized role.

Stephanie Sy looks at how the single-use nature of many pandemic items are piling up in our landfills and in our environment.

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Pandemic pollution: Disposable masks, gloves are saving lives but ruining the environment

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As the world has become hyper-hygienic since the pandemic began, plastic is playing an oversized role in the world's environmental problems. This Earth Day, Stephanie Sy looks at how many of the single-use pandemic items are piling up in our landfills and in our environment.

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Discarded COVID-19 PPE such as masks can be deadly to wildlife

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From entanglements to ingestion, two biologists are documenting the impact of single-use masks and gloves on animals around the world.

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Face Masks: New Solutions to Reduce Their Negative Impact on the Environment - MedicalExpo e-Magazine

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Organizations are developing new solutions to reduce the negative impact on the environment of face masks.