when i
saw that blue ppe mask i honestly felt
sad and
guilty about it because i've used a blue
ppe mask that's easy to throw away
name is shala and i'm oliver we're dye
professionals here in anila batangas
so there's this area called kobankov the
dive site there is
wonderful the corals also very colorful
there's we see turtles
and many big marine life
when we arrived there it's my first time
again there after the lockdown
there
it's gotten worse yeah there's more
stuff like yeah the ppe is
just 10 minutes on the dive we saw like
around 10
12 masks and we never had that before
yeah we've seen some masks which are
there for like
how many months already yeah you can see
the algaes and everything
so we don't really want that to happen
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take a look at the rubbish that was
brought back by the divers you can see
here blue face masks lots of them
there's a face shield here plastic
bottles
tarpaulins and the question is now what
happens to this rubbish well
lots of it will go back to landfill and
without adequate waste management here
in the philippines
some of it could end up back in the sea
and that's a problem because polymers
inside the surgical masks are breaking
down into microplastics
easily consumed by marine wildlife and
the coral reefs that nurture them
anilao is known for its marine
biodiversity tourists around the world
come here to dive
with the ppes we wouldn't want to show
them yeah that one
or you wouldn't want to have the fishes
that
you're going to eat on your table having
the ppes inside them instead of using
this disposable
mask why not just use masks that are
washable reusable
so what we've seen in kabankov is just
the
tip of the iceberg i bet but if people
were educated
to dispose properly we can still save it
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