Long Beach Township is reminding visitors and residents to properly dispose of face masks, wipes and gloves, along with any other trash, when out and about. “Sadly we have been seeing ‘COVID-19 trash’ all over our streets and beaches,” the municipality notes in a recent Facebook post. “This is not only a littering issue but a public health issue.”
“We have been having a lot of citizen engagement on our social media with people contacting us about seeing litter,” said LBT Sustainability…
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