Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
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Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#2Sounds like a completely made up figure.
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#3Sounds like a completely made up figure.
>>The report used a global production estimate of 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020, a conservative loss rate of 3%, and the average weight of 3 to 4 grams for a single-use polypropylene surgical face mask to arrive at the estimate.
It sounds like and estimate
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#4Sounds like a completely made up figure.
"The report used a global production estimate of 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020, a conservative loss rate of 3%"
However I didn't see a link to the report itself which prevents me from speaking on the methodology of the loss rate value.
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#5Sounds like a completely made up figure.
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Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#6Sounds like a completely made up figure.
>>The report used a global production estimate of 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020, a conservative loss rate of 3%, and the average weight of 3 to 4 grams for a single-use polypropylene surgical face mask to arrive at the estimate. It sounds like and estimate
i.e. made up. A loss rate of 3% why?
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#7Imagine the archeologists in the year 100,000, sorting through rock samples and going "oh look, there's the mask pollution from the great 2020 pandemic"
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#8Whenever I go outside and see >50% people wearing disposable masks I wonder... Why? Did they only find out about the pandemic right now and it caught them off-guard?
I have had reusable masks since April. I assumed everyone was doing the same, but everytime I go outside I prove myself wrong. I don't get it.
Re: Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
#9Imagine the archeologists in the year 100,000, sorting through rock samples and going "oh look, there's the mask pollution from the great 2020 pandemic"
I think about this a lot, our footprint as seen by future anthropologists.