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Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough installs recycling boxes for disposable masks
Plastic waste from personal protective equipment — the other coronavirus ‘plague’ Now, the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent is trying a new way to keep PPE out of the trash.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]New recycling boxes, installed in local municipal buildings, give locals a sustainable way to discard masks and gloves.Borough Mayor Alan DeSousa told Global News the program was originally just for city employees, who he says use about 2,000 masks a week in Saint-Laurent alone.He deemed it a fairly low-tech solution to a very 2020 problem, adding, “we’re just glad that we found a solution to a problem that everyone is facing!”While Saint-Laurent’s recycling program is the first, and so far,