COVID-19: Anti-virus face masks litter Hong Kong's beaches
The city has overwhelmingly embraced face coverings to fight the coronavirus
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Surgical masks are washing up in growing quantities on the shores of Hong Kong, a city that has overwhelmingly embraced face coverings to fight the coronavirus
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Gary Stokes, founder of the environmental group Oceans Asia, with discarded face masks he found on a beach in the residential area of Discovery Bay on the outlying Lantau island in Hong Kong.
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A discarded face mask washes up on a beach in the residential area of Discovery Bay.
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Conservationists say the masks are adding to already alarmingly high levels of plastic waste in the waters around the finance hub.
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Gary Stokes uses surgical gloves to pick up discarded face masks in the residential area of Discovery Bay.
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Gary Stokes picks up surgical masks that had washed up on a beach in the residential area of Discovery Bay.
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Masks can injure or kill marine life, because they look like food.
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Beach cleaners sort through other pieces of litter left on a beach in the residential area of Discovery Bay.
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