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Environmentalist voices concern about face mask disposal

Aug 24, 2020

Many of us are using disposable face masks right now and that's great, but what do you do with it afterwards?

Environmentalist Anthony Tan Kee Huat shares with us his concerns about the excessive use and careless disposal of face masks.

"I have found face masks lying on walkways, and in parking lots. It poses an immediate health hazard as we do not know whether the user was healthy or otherwise. It is also a garbage issue, worse if it clogs the drains. It also poses a safety issue first to humans as a person may slip on the mask and suffer a bad fall."

Anthony adds that animals may also get their legs, mouth or beak entangled in the ear loops of the masks.
 

Bukit Aman has opened an investigation paper on the Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister for flouting mandatory home quarantine after returning from overseas.

They are investigating the Minister under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act.

So far, the police have received 27 reports in relation to the issue.

Earlier, the Health Ministry issued the Minister a RM1000 fine, which he has since settled.
 

An Australian white supremacist, who killed 51 worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand last year, will face survivors of his attack today at a sentencing hearing.

He is likely to be jailed for life for the rampage, to which he had pleaded guilty to in March.