LOUISVILLE – Linda Behrns, president of Keep Cass County Beautiful, has this urgent message to all county residents: “Watch where you toss used wipes and gloves. Failing to properly dispose of PPE or ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Americans wear face masks to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, reversing an earlier directive against it. Now ...

A Magellanic penguin in Brazil ingested a face mask. A hedgehog in England got itself entangled in a glove. An octopus off the coast of France was found seeking refuge under a mask. In August 2020, ...

JEERS to those who dispose of masks anywhere they please leaving our landscape a disgusting mess. For the past year now, we've been wearing masks in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19, a ...

The pandemic has resulted in a major increase in plastic and medical hazard waste from efforts to reduce spreading the virus and treatment of patients. Much of this waste is from non-recyclable ...

The “Jeer” in today’s paper mentioning pandemic litter made an important point and was welcomed (“Cheers & Jeers: Farmers market springs to life,” The Columbian, March 27). However, I would have loved ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Businesses are pivoting to meet the new demands of the community and trying to figure out what to do with leftover masks. Leah Garner, with Upward Promotions Plus, said making masks ...

One of the most distinguishable features of the COVID-19 era is the public, everyday use of personal protective equipment (PPE), mainly in the form of disposable face masks and latex gloves. And while ...

When the German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop said that fashion is about suspense, surprise and fantasy, and not about rules, he definitely did not have the fashion trends of 2021 in mind. Since the ...

NEW YORK — Ask almost any New Yorker and chances are they've noticed streets, sewer drains and sidewalks littered with used protective masks and gloves. "What I see really on the train and on the ...

Essential workers with the city's Parks Department have been working through the COVID-19 crisis to keep city parks clean and safe.