Covid-Related Waste Washing Ashore On California Beaches
Written by 991KBU on October 9, 2020
On the COVID 19 front … data continue to reflect positive progress in California’s fight to limit spread of the coronavirus, but as some parts of the state fare better than others, health officials continue to warn people not to let their guard down.
Malibu is hanging in at 104 cases.
Santa Monica Mountains … still 125.
The pandemic is washing ashore on California beaches.
An alarming new trends when looking at the data compiled during Coastal Cleanup Month.
Preliminary reports released this week show what any observant person in Malibu can tell you.
Discarded personal protective equipment, or PPE, from the pandemic made the Top 10 list for the first time.
And plastic bags made a comeback even though they were banned in the state in 2014,.
Supermarkets and other stores took it upon themselves to start using plastic bags again… rather than take the risk of reusable bags possibly carrying coronavirus.
Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay says most of the items that made the Top 10 list of trash found were food-related.
P with people discarding takeout containers, cups and utensils in streets, gutters, parks and waterways or leaving them behind at the beach, according to primary data digested by Heal The Bay.
