Once essential for curbing the spread of COVID-19, disposable face masks have become a major contributor to environmental pollution and human health concerns. Over the past four years, more than 950 ...

The face masks that many of us relied on during the pandemic are now causing unexpected issues. New research from engineers at Washington University in St. Louis revealed that discarded disposable ...

Researchers in China and Australia have developed a way to transform the globe's 950 billion discarded pandemic-era face masks into valuable electronic components, offering a climate-friendly solution ...

Improperly discarded surgical mask on the Hong Kong shore. Credit: City University of Hong Kong Surgical masks have been part of essential personal protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, ...

Face masks, the protective gear used by billions across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, are turning into an environmental time bomb. As billions of discarded masks pile up on land and in ...

To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand. In the past ...

(a) Schematic illustration of a face mask disassembled into different parts; (b) FTIR and thermogravimetric curves of different parts of a face mask. A latest study published in Engineering presents a ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Discarded face masks are piling up on Hong Kong's beaches and nature trails, with environmental groups warning that the waste is posing a huge threat to marine life and wildlife ...

Not only has the coronavirus pandemic impacted the way we live, but it's also changed the way we litter.Brothers Danny Eisawy, 11, and Jojo Eisawy, 9, have been picking up trash around their ...