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Did you just toss your mask into a bin after rolling it into a ball? Did you just throw cans, leaving them wide open? Actually, what you've done is wrong.
Evangelos Achilleos, manager of the RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Center, shared with us the correct ways to dispose the waste masks and cans before they were thrown into garbage bins.
"It's really good to crush the opening because if you don't, unfortunately, the animal can get their heads caught in here when they just sniff for food," he explained.
Regarding the masks, he said "break the loop" is the simplest thing we can do to avoid birds and small animals wrapped by the loops.
Ursula, a 4-year-old gray seal, is rescued from nets entanglement. /courtesy of RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Center
Not only are waste cans and masks deadly threats to animals, the fishing nets not been disposed properly are also a potential harm to them.
The nets made up of monofilaments are super thin and not elastics so that they can easily cut into animals' flesh, such as seals. Therefore, it is vital that the nets are dumped appropriately.
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