AFP通信さんのインスタグラム写真 - (AFP通信Instagram)「AFP Photo - Virus crisis gives throwaway plastic a new lease on life -⁣ .⁣ 📷 @torbalancho 📷 @frederic.brown 📷 Yuri Dyachyshyn 📷 Nelson Almeida 📷 @oscardelpozo_photo 📷 Alain Jocard 📷 @thelilyfish 📷 Ernesto Benavides 📷 Denis Charlet⁣ ⁣ .⁣ Just when you thought it was beyond the social and environmental pale, single-use plastic is making a comeback, be it for throwaway facemasks, gloves or shrink-wrapped vegetables.⁣ .⁣ Largely to blame is the coronavirus and the response to ward it off -- the masks, gloves and other plastic-based items, many of which are now ending up in our oceans -- already strewn with the slow-to-degrade detritus of a constantly growing industry.⁣ .⁣ - 'Magic' plastic -⁣ Masks, visors, gloves or screens ... all are crucial accessories to keep COVID-19 at bay.⁣ ⁣ Other uses are manifold -- from hairdressers using throwaway aprons to UN recommendations that airline food be distributed in blister packs to the bubble tents that allow some relatives to visit elderly and sick loved ones, touching them through a transparent plastic film.⁣ .⁣ Even California has had partially to lay aside its green credentials by dropping for two months a ban on single use plastic bags. In Saudi Arabia, some retail centres insist customers don wear-and-throw gloves.」7月3日 15時01分