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The shadow pandemic of single use personal protective equipment plastic waste: A blue print for suppression and eradication
Single use personal protective equipment (PPE) has played a major role in preventing COVID-19 infection. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 4 million tonnes of polypropylene PPE waste has been disposed into the environment in uncontrolled manner causing significant and long-term ecol...
Autores principales: | Nghiem, Long D., Iqbal, Hafiz M.N., Zdarta, Jakub |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387200/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cscee.2021.100125 |
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