Choking marine life, and/or poisoning it (those paper masks are treated with teflon), and creating ugly giant clumps of waste (non-biodegradable) doesn’t jibe with the aggressive pseudo-altruism of the pro-mask propaganda.
Article link:
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/more-than-1-5-billion-masks-believed-to-have-entered-oceans-in-2020