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Fate of face masks after being discarded into seawater: Aging and microbial colonization

Billions of discarded masks have entered the oceans since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current reports mostly discuss the potential of masks as plastic pollution, but there has been no study on the fate of this emerging plastic waste in the marine environment. Therefore, we exposed masks i...

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Autores principales: Ma, Jie, Chen, Fengyuan, Xu, Huo, Liu, Jingli, Chen, Ciara Chun, Zhang, Zhen, Jiang, Hao, Li, Yanping, Pan, Ke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9069998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35596986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129084