{"id":342017,"date":"2021-12-10T16:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=342017"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:39:01","slug":"face-mask-litter-surged-9000-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/face-mask-litter-surged-9000-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Face mask litter surged 9,000% due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">They are everywhere, including on the most isolated Okinawa beaches&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and mask mandates rolled out by governments worldwide have caused an \u201cexponential increase\u201d in face mask pollution, comprehensive research based on data collected in 11 countries suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The damning study by a team of researchers with the University of Portsmouth was published in the Nature Sustainability journal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The group conducted a comprehensive study of personal protective equipment (PPE), observing an \u201cexponential increase\u201d in such litter amid anti-coronavirus measures. Their findings are based on data collected across 11 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US, using a litter collection application Litterati.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/542844-covid-face-mask-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160101028804345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 They are everywhere, including on the most isolated Okinawa beaches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":342019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}