What pigs we humans are

Is it really so very, very hard not to litter?

Is it really so difficult to ensure you don't leave anything behind you when you go for a walk or sit on the beach for a while?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/08/more-masks-than-jellyfish-coronavirus-waste-ends-up-in-ocean

As that Guardian article states, even in the swanky south of France, the sea bed and beaches are now littered with disposable face masks, gloves and sanitiser dispensers.

I quote from the article:
In France alone, authorities have ordered two billion disposable masks, said Laurent Lombard of Opération Mer Propre. “Knowing that … soon we’ll run the risk of having more masks than jellyfish in the Mediterranean,” he wrote on social media alongside video of a dive showing algae-entangled masks and soiled gloves in the sea near Antibes.



And also:

In the years leading up to the pandemic, environmentalists had warned of the threat posed to oceans and marine life by skyrocketing plastic pollution. As much as 13 million tonnes of plastic goes into oceans each year, according to a 2018 estimate by UN Environment. The Mediterranean sees 570,000 tonnes of plastic flow into it annually – an amount the WWF has described as equal to dumping 33,800 plastic bottles every minute into the sea.

Imagine that - the equivalent of 33,800 plastic bottles chucked into the Mediteraranean Sea (a pretty small sea at that) EVERY SINGLE MINUTE!

Also in Hong Kong:

Earlier this year the Hong Kong-based OceansAsia began voicing similar concerns, after a survey of marine debris in the city’s uninhabited Soko Islands turned up dozens of disposable masks.

“On a beach about 100 metres long, we found about 70,” said Gary Stokes of OceansAsia. One week later, another 30 masks had washed up. “And that’s on an uninhabited island in the middle of nowhere.”

We humans are disgusting creatures.