Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
Paola Ventura, top, feeds plastic waste into a machine to be melted and reformed, at the Alexis Plastics factory in Ecatepec, Mexico, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. The small factory, which had produced mainly plastic shopping bags until the capital banned their use in January, is now turning recycled plastic waste into garbage bags, plastic construction sheeting, and tens of thousands of body bags for those who died from COVID-19. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)