Aditi Sangal, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:33:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Aditi Sangal, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 Discarded masks and gloves are becoming a health hazard as people dump them on streets https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2020/04/21/discarded-masks-and-gloves-are-becoming-a-health-hazard-as-people-dump-them-on-streets/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:27:44 +0000 https://newswatchplus-staging.azurewebsites.net/?p= (CNN) — During a walk around his block in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mark Benson was struck by how much discarded gloves and masks he saw on his short route. The Louisiana State University professor, who focuses on microplastic pollution, decided to track the waste he saw with pictures geotagged to the location where he spotted it.

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