Originally Posted by
LGW Vulture
Anyone dared to consider the environmental impact of all these masks and medical testing kits?
Probably has created as much damage as we saved by stop flying airplanes.
No one is really considering anything at the moment.
The people who spend their days on Twitter complaining that the NHS don't have enough PPE will be the same ones complaining in years to come that it was all single-use and sent to landfill afterwards.
The general public wearing masks in the supermarket and so on do so as they are scared more than anything else. All the information I have heard regarding masks is that they won't stop you getting anything, but they may stop you passing it on, however, that all depends on the sort you wear.