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Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario
Although there have been enormous reports on the microplastic pollution from different plastic products, impacts, controlling mechanisms in recent years, the surgical face masks, made up of polymeric materials, as a source of microplastic pollution potential in the ecosystem are not fully understood...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32763564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111517 |
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author | Aragaw, Tadele Assefa |
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description | Although there have been enormous reports on the microplastic pollution from different plastic products, impacts, controlling mechanisms in recent years, the surgical face masks, made up of polymeric materials, as a source of microplastic pollution potential in the ecosystem are not fully understood and considered yet. Current studies are mostly stated out that microplastics pollution should be a big deal because of their enormous effect on the aquatic biota, and the entire environment. Due to the complicated conditions of the aquatic bodies, microplastics could have multiple effects, and reports so far are still lacking. In addition to real microplastic pollutions which has been known before, face mask as a potential microplastic source could be also researching out, including the management system, in detail. It is noted that face masks are easily ingested by higher organisms, such as fishes, and microorganisms in the aquatic life which will affect the food chain and finally chronic health problems to humans. As a result, microplastic from the face mask should be a focus worldwide. |
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spelling | pubmed-73819272020-07-28 Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario Aragaw, Tadele Assefa Mar Pollut Bull Article Although there have been enormous reports on the microplastic pollution from different plastic products, impacts, controlling mechanisms in recent years, the surgical face masks, made up of polymeric materials, as a source of microplastic pollution potential in the ecosystem are not fully understood and considered yet. Current studies are mostly stated out that microplastics pollution should be a big deal because of their enormous effect on the aquatic biota, and the entire environment. Due to the complicated conditions of the aquatic bodies, microplastics could have multiple effects, and reports so far are still lacking. In addition to real microplastic pollutions which has been known before, face mask as a potential microplastic source could be also researching out, including the management system, in detail. It is noted that face masks are easily ingested by higher organisms, such as fishes, and microorganisms in the aquatic life which will affect the food chain and finally chronic health problems to humans. As a result, microplastic from the face mask should be a focus worldwide. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7381927/ /pubmed/32763564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111517 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Aragaw, Tadele Assefa Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title | Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title_full | Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title_fullStr | Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title_full_unstemmed | Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title_short | Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario |
title_sort | surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the covid-19 scenario |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32763564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111517 |
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