COVID Waste Challenge for Cleanup Aust Day

COVID Waste Challenge for Cleanup Aust Day
Suzanne Kerr collects street side rubbish in Port Melbourne, Australia, on May 29, 2020. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
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By AAP
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Volunteers at Clean Up Australia Day events will be dealing with a new kind of rubbish this year—waste generated by the COVID pandemic.

“There is so much more plastic waste and pandemic related waste—gloves, masks, hand sanitisers,” Clean Up chairman Pip Kiernan told AAP.

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