Still amidst a pandemic, some of the trash left behind is single-use protective wears, like masks and gloves. A single mask can produce millions of micro plastics, which are absorbed by animals and enters the food chain, which eventually reaches humans. The cycle works like this: a fish eats a micro plastic mistaking it for plankton (the organism that they eat), humans eat the fish thus ingesting plastics.
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