Are Face Masks the New Plastic Straws?

Nope! They are worse.

Photo credit Suzanne Johnson

Remember the days when we all worried about plastic straws? Remember the outrage at that photo of the turtle with a straw stuck up its nose and how that spurred a change toward paper straws, reusable straws — or no straws at all. In retrospect, it was a simple change to make for most people. Straws became the poster child of all disposable plastics, which…