VTDigger

Last year, Vermont Glove made masks and missed out on holiday orders. This year is different.

Sam Hooper was paying the price for retooling to make personal protective equipment. At the beginning of the pandemic, Hooper had changed production at Vermont Glove, the company he owns, to meet the ...
The Daily Advertiser

Broussard glove, mask, PPE plants built to help COVID supply problems are planning to grow

Eight months after breaking ground on its two personal protective equipment manufacturing plants in Broussard, SafeSource Direct produced its first glove. Now — a full year after the groundbreaking — ...
The Spokesman-Review

Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

PACIFICA, Calif. – Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding untold lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They’re also creating a worldwide pollution ...
The Conversation

COVID litter: we mapped discarded masks and gloves in 11 countries with the help of citizen science

If at some stage during the COVID pandemic you’ve had a face mask mysteriously disappear from your pocket, you’re not alone. From March 2020 countless discarded blue and white masks started appearing ...
New York Post

Masks and gloves are saving lives — but causing a ton of pollution

PACIFICA, Calif. — Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding untold lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They’re also creating a worldwide pollution ...
Marin Independent Journal

Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) — Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding untold lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They’re also creating a worldwide ...