PPE: Plastic and the Pandemic and the Environment

Описание: Your face masks could be the next environmental crisis. Here's why.

There have been many reports as to how COVID-19 started. However, emerging studies are discovering the strange but strong connection it has to environmental exploitation. This video explains the increasing demand of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and single-use plastics this coronavirus pandemic, the short term and long term effects, and the possible actions that could be done to control and manage this problem.

This digital story was produced under the 'Mulat Pinoy Kabataan News Network SciComm Program Batch 1' by Probe Media Foundation Inc. (PMFI). The views and opinions expressed in this piece are not necessarily those of PMFI.

Edited/Animated by: Beatrice Maquilan
Researched/ Written by: Rebecca Galvez, Julie Ann Delda, Katrina Esposo
Voiceover by: Katrina Esposo

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