{"id":6359,"date":"2021-07-31T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2021-07-31T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:58:56","slug":"digusting-on-many-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/digusting-on-many-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGUSTING ON MANY FRONTS ( :) )"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 1.6 billion disposable face masks ended up in the earth&#8217;s oceans in 2020, out of the roughly 52 billion&nbsp;produced in response to the pandemic, according to a&nbsp;study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While governments around the world&nbsp;continue to support mask mandates in public spaces, the impact&nbsp;of disposable masks is only just emerging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, by the Hong Kong-based marine conservation group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oceansasia.org\/covid-19-facemasks\/\">OceansAsia<\/a>,\u00a0title &#8220;Masks on the Beach,&#8221; also estimated that\u00a0roughly 5,500 tons of plastic pollution entered the ocean in 2020\u00a0from masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a cigarette butt or\u00a0plastic bag\u00a0takes 20 years or less to degrade in the ocean, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/1-6-billion-disposable-masks-entered-our-oceans-in-2020\/\">Visual Capitalist<\/a>, a plastic bottle, disposable diaper or a disposable mask takes nearly 450 years to fully break dow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.6 billion disposable face masks ended up in the earth&#8217;s oceans in 2020, out of the roughly 52 billion&nbsp;produced in response to the pandemic, according to a&nbsp;study. While governments around the world&nbsp;continue to support mask mandates in public spaces, the impact&nbsp;of disposable masks is only just emerging. The report, by the Hong Kong-based marine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}