Discarded face masks could be melted down and recycled to help tackle plastic pollution ... hospital waste into new masks with 65% recycled materials. Old PPE like face masks, which people ...

Hundreds of tonnes of plastic personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks ... materials to create new PPE products - reducing waste by around 85%. Could recycling PPE help reduce plastic pollution?

With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton is sleeping with a mask on ... made with toxics-containing materials burn, it adds to the ...