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Break Free from Plastics (campaign title)
COVID-19
Day
Gloves
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
Plastics
Pollution
Protective clothing
Rubbish
Streets

Personal Protective Equipment Pollution in New York

Disposable masks litter the streets of Brooklyn, New York in the neighborhood of Greenpoint on July 9, 2020. Surgical masks, gloves, protective equipment, body bags -- the COVID-19 crisis has spurred a rapid expansion in the production of desperately-needed plastic products, with governments racing to boost their stockpiles and regular citizens clamoring for their share of supplies.

All that plastic ends up somewhere, and environmentalists fear it is just the tip of a looming iceberg, with the pandemic causing a number of serious challenges to their efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
From people discarding plastic gloves and masks in cities across the world to important regulations on the use of plastic being scrapped, rolled back or delayed, the problem has taken a back seat during one of the most significant public health crises of modern times. 
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Personal Protective Equipment Pollution in NY

Surgical masks, gloves, protective equipment, body bags -- the COVID-19 crisis has spurred a rapid expansion in the production of desperately-needed plastic products, with governments racing to boost their stockpiles and regular citizens clamoring for their share of supplies.

All that plastic ends up somewhere -- and environmentalist fear it is just the tip of a looming iceberg, with the pandemic causing a number of serious challenges to their efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
From people discarding plastic gloves and masks in cities across the world to important regulations on the use of plastic being scrapped, rolled back or delayed, the problem has taken a back seat during one of the most significant public health crises of modern times. 
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Unique identifier: GP1SU5C9 
Type: Image 
Shoot date: 10/07/2020 
Locations: New York, United States of America
Credit line: © Tracie Williams / Greenpeace 
Size: 3337px × 5000px     24.41 MB 
Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)