Anthropogenic environmental change negatively effects human health and is increasing
health-care system demand. Paradoxically, the provision of health care, which itself is a …

Face masks are an indispensable low-cost public healthcare necessity for containing viral
transmission. After the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a pandemic, there was an …

COVID-19 pandemic has posed severe threats to the society globally. World Health
Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest that people wear face masks as a precautionary …

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has caused socioeconomic, physical, mental, and
environmental upheaval. Personal protective equipment, such as face masks, was …

The COVID-19 pandemic suddenly changed the lifestyle of billions of people. Face masks
became indispensable to protect from the contagion providing a significant environmental …

The major hurdle in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic would be the safe
management of plastic waste generated from personal protective equipment and mitigating …

Using a science mapping approach, we analyzed the exponential increase in the number of
scientific documents about the negative environmental impacts produced by waste from …

This paper aims to evaluate the life cycle impact and the circularity of face masks to support
government public policies in extreme consumption of these products as in the case of the …

The daily use of facemask to prevent virus transmission increases the negative effect on the
environment because of improper waste disposal. Due to the absence of baseline data, the …

To understand which are the best strategies for textile waste management and to analyse
the effects on the environment of applying circular economy practices to textile products, a …