More masks that jellyfish in oceans, experts warn

French non-profit organisation, Opération Mer Propre warned last month of a surge in plastic pollution due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation found huge amounts of masks and gloves on the sea floor. Now, conservation experts suggest that there could be more masks than jellyfish in the ocean as nations gear up to fight the pandemic! France alone has ordered two billion disposable masks and this will give rise to a new kind of plastic pollution which can be called Covid-19 pollution, they say.