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Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the extensive use of face masks and protective personal equipment (PPE) kits has led to increasing degree of microplastic pollution (MP) because they are typically discarded into the seas, rivers, streets, and other parts of the environment. Currently, microplastic (MP)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8748211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2022.102290 |
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author | Ray, Saikat Sinha Lee, Hyung Kae Huyen, Dao Thi Thanh Chen, Shiao-Shing Kwon, Young-Nam |
author_facet | Ray, Saikat Sinha Lee, Hyung Kae Huyen, Dao Thi Thanh Chen, Shiao-Shing Kwon, Young-Nam |
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description | During the COVID-19 pandemic, the extensive use of face masks and protective personal equipment (PPE) kits has led to increasing degree of microplastic pollution (MP) because they are typically discarded into the seas, rivers, streets, and other parts of the environment. Currently, microplastic (MP) pollution has a negative impact on the environment because of high-level fragmentation. Typically, MP pollution can be detected by various techniques, such as microscopic analysis, density separation, and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry. However, there are limited studies on disposable face masks and PPE kits. A wide range of marine species ingest MPs in the form of fibers and fragments, which directly affect the environment and human health; thus, more research and development are needed on the effect of MP pollution on human health. This article provides a perspective on the origin and distribution of MP pollution in waterbodies (e.g., rivers, ponds, lakes, and seas) and wastewater treatment plants, and reviews the possible remediation of MP pollution related to the excessive disposal of face masks and PPE kits to aquatic environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-87482112022-01-11 Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic Ray, Saikat Sinha Lee, Hyung Kae Huyen, Dao Thi Thanh Chen, Shiao-Shing Kwon, Young-Nam Environ Technol Innov Article During the COVID-19 pandemic, the extensive use of face masks and protective personal equipment (PPE) kits has led to increasing degree of microplastic pollution (MP) because they are typically discarded into the seas, rivers, streets, and other parts of the environment. Currently, microplastic (MP) pollution has a negative impact on the environment because of high-level fragmentation. Typically, MP pollution can be detected by various techniques, such as microscopic analysis, density separation, and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry. However, there are limited studies on disposable face masks and PPE kits. A wide range of marine species ingest MPs in the form of fibers and fragments, which directly affect the environment and human health; thus, more research and development are needed on the effect of MP pollution on human health. This article provides a perspective on the origin and distribution of MP pollution in waterbodies (e.g., rivers, ponds, lakes, and seas) and wastewater treatment plants, and reviews the possible remediation of MP pollution related to the excessive disposal of face masks and PPE kits to aquatic environments. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-05 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8748211/ /pubmed/35036477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2022.102290 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) 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 Ray, Saikat Sinha Lee, Hyung Kae Huyen, Dao Thi Thanh Chen, Shiao-Shing Kwon, Young-Nam Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Microplastics waste in environment: A perspective on recycling issues from PPE kits and face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | microplastics waste in environment: a perspective on recycling issues from ppe kits and face masks during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8748211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2022.102290 |
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