Disposable masks break into micro-sized plastic fibers that can take up to 450 years to decompose. (Photo: Getty Images) In Unearthed, Gen Z climate-change activists discuss some of the most pressing ...

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has a new disposable waste problem: face masks. In just the first few months of the pandemic, an estimated 129 billion disposable face masks were used each ...

W. Aaron Vandiver is a writer, attorney, and wildlife conservationist. He is the author of the novel Under a Poacher’s Moon, released on February 1, 2022. An estimated 1.6 billion disposable masks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disposable masks break into micro-sized plastic fibers that can take up to 450 years to decompose. (Photo: Getty Images) Despite ...