WASHINGTON - The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has utterly derailed global efforts to reduce single-use plastic.
The pandemic has made masks part of our lives. But billions of them and other plastic-based personal protection equipment (PPE) for health and hospital workers - and on top of that, more plastic food containers - are disposed of and find their way into landfills and often, oceans.
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