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Single-use plastic is not always safer
International Scientific Agreement
In a joint statement issued in June 2020, over 125 scientists from around the world agreed that:
- Returning to single-use plastic is NOT necessary to minimise the spread of infection.
- Single-use plastic is not necessarily any safer than re-usable items.
- Single-use plastic causes additional infection transmission concerns once it is discarded, particularly if it is left as garbage.
Single-use plastic products can give a false sense of reassurance. This is because they give the perception of better hygiene when this isn’t necessarily the case.
