Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment

By Oluniyi O. Fadare, E. Okoffo. Science of the Total Environment, 2020

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions (2021, background): “Several studies have already warned of the COVID-19 pandemic causing ecological disasters [9,189].”
• Microplastic sources, formation, toxicity and remediation: a review (2023, background): “Furthermore, the excessive use of single-use face masks made of plastic polymers, such as polyesters and polypropylenes, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly increased microplastic waste (Fadare and Okoffo 2020).”