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Collected Item: “What are we going to do with all these masks?”

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What are we going to do with all these masks?

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Text/Photo

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

In looking through my "mask basket", I see I have about 23 masks. What am I going to do with all these when the pandemic is over? What are you going to do? I know a lot of people want to have a "burning party", but I don't think it's a great idea to set fire to all of our masks, collectively. Will we throw them away, contributing new tonnage to the landfills? Or save them just in case we find ourselves in another terrible situation where we need them? Can we create a collective where we send them in and they are cleaned and stockpiled for a day in the future that they are called upon again? Something to thing about...

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#masks, #waste, #desigenermasks, #facecoverings,

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jaclyn Edwards

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2021-03-10
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