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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...
Autor principal: | Aragaw, Tadele Assefa |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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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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