Star-Ledger took throwing away the masks too literally | Letters

I am writing to object to the photograph on the top of the front page of the March 4 Star-Ledger. It is a closeup of a discarded disposable surgical mask sitting on a sidewalk, meant to illustrate “a new phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey. My pandemic hobby has been cleaning up the litter in my neighborhood. I walk every day with a couple of empty grocery bags and I fill them with a wide variety of abandoned trash. Most litter is no-fault: papers and food containers that escape from the top of the trash barrel. Some is seriously careless or negligent: candy wrappers, fast food bags,…

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