Surgical & Beauty Facial Masks- The New Waste Problem of Post Covid-19

Pierfrancesco Morganti and Gianluca Morganti
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Pierfrancesco Morganti: Academy of History of Health Care Art, Rome, Italy; China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Gianluca Morganti: ISCD Nanoscience Center, Rome, Italy

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2020, vol. 29, issue 5, 22945-22950

Abstract: The actual unsustainable plastic waste has been further increased by the massive use of surgical- and beauty masks...

Keywords: Chitin Nanofibrils; Lignin; Surgical Masks; Beauty Masks; Market Masks; Plastics; Pollution; Urban Waste; Circular Economy; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2020.29.004878

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