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I think the real question here is whether or not the disruption will continue?

If things continue as they are for months, there’s simply going to be a change in mindset and we’re going to realize that there is a new “normal”. Full protective gear for a normal workday could easily become the norm.

Maybe they underestimate how long “this” will continue, because they expect “this” will drastically change normal life.



Wow, just imagining how much more waste we would generate if all of human population needed PPE every time we left our homes as the new normal.


Ironically, that could also be a huge boost to some real recycling programs, and not just with protective gear.

Once people are focused on recycling something they use every single day and there are easy mechanisms to do that, recycling other things becomes less of an issue.




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