{"id":188767,"date":"2021-11-09T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/millions-of-tons-of-covid-masks-gloves-will-end-up-in-oceans"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:23:00","slug":"millions-of-tons-of-covid-masks-gloves-will-end-up-in-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/millions-of-tons-of-covid-masks-gloves-will-end-up-in-oceans","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Tons of COVID Masks, Gloves Will End Up in Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Nov. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; While the lockdowns of the pandemic may have done the planet&#8217;s atmosphere a favor, a new study predicts that discarded masks, gloves and face shields will add more than 25,000 tons of plastic waste to the world&#8217;s oceans. Researchers from Nanjing University&#8217;s School of Atmospheric Sciences in China and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography used a new model to project how much pandemic-related plastic waste there will be and where it will go.The investigators found that, in total, 8 million tons will be produced, with a significant portion of this ocean plastic debris ending up on beaches or in the seabed within three to four years.A smaller amount will go into the open ocean, where it will be trapped in the centers of ocean basins or subtropical gyres and a circumpolar plastic accumulation zone in the Arctic Ocean.Most of the global plastic waste entering the ocean is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Nov. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; While the lockdowns of the pandemic may have done the planet&#8217;s atmosphere a favor, a new study predicts that discarded masks, gloves and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[80,62,215,59,60,55],"class_list":["post-188767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-advocacy","tag-coronavirus","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}