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SUBMITTER: Sekhar SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sekhar Sugali Chandra SC Pabba Manideep M Tallam Aarti A Fatima Saeed S Butti Sai Kishore SK Vani Bukke B Sahu Nivedita N Sundergopal Sridhar S
Environmental science and pollution research international 20221222 13
The current work focuses on designing a low-cost, reusable, and highly efficient facemask for protection from respiratory droplets that cause COVID-19, other infection-causing organisms, and dust allergies. Several masks available in the market are single-use that would choke the environment through plastic pollution or are expensive for the commoner to afford. In the present study, the facemask incorporates a waste-derived polyethylene terephthalate (PET) layer and a non-woven polypropylene (PP ...[more]