MALTBY — Employees at a plant nursery here have gone from mask-less to masked, despite the owner’s argument that requiring face coverings poses a risk to his workers’ safety. A Thursday visit to ...

Disposable masks are necessary during COVID-19. But we’re burning through them at an astounding rate. Every minute we throw away 3 million masks, which adds up to 129 billion per month. To make ...

Last year, millions of single-use face masks were discarded around the world. Many of the discarded masks have been found polluting the coastal waters of places like California and clogging landfills.

Flower World in Maltby is being fined by the state Department of Labor and Industry for a rather unique position. Originally, employees were told not to wear masks while working at Flower World for ...

Since the COVID pandemic, disposable masks have become the omnipresent trash du jour, ever reminding us that disease transmission is only one of the problems currently threatening the global ...