Threat of Medical Waste

A reader takes issue with used medical waste during the pandemic. 

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January 25, 2021

Threat of Medical Waste

RECENTLY, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences conducted research on waste in Jakarta Bay. The finding was accumulating plastic waste plus a new kind of trash: medical waste, which includes, among other things, hand gloves as part of personal protective equipment used during the coronavirus pandemic period.

The research result is quite distressing. First, we remain unaware that polluting the environment is harming nature

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