Walk through the parking lot of any shopping area, and you’re bound to find the latest litter hazard – discarded protective gloves. And it’s far from a New Jersey problem. Go online and you can see photos of gloves lying on the asphalt in Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York and Canada.
Deborah Whitcraft, a trustee and former president of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad, said she has seen them strewn around the Acme Market parking lot in Long Beach Township.
“It’s absolutely disgusting,” she said. “You don’t know what those gloves have touched or where they’ve been.
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