The coronavirus pandemic is generating mountains of medical waste that experts say are overwhelming recycling and garbage centers both in Evanston and across the nation. In 2018, medical waste company ...

Plastic PPE waste is to be given a second life as part of a new research project. Since the start of the pandemic, about 8.4 million tonnes of plastic PPE waste, including respirators and masks, have ...

In early 2020, as the United States and the rest of the world were coming to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that there was a growing need for personal protective equipment, or PPE.

(WCIV) — Plastic pollution is nothing new, but the pandemic has new litter popping up around the Lowcountry. Single-use plastics can be found nearly everywhere, and PPE is now part of the problem.

LONDON, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is ...

The world has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic for more than a year and a half, and a new study shows that in the process, Earth's oceans have become far more polluted with waste from discarded ...

ATLANTA — Little pieces of plastic are in our drinking water, food and air we breathe. Now personal protective equipment like masks and gloves washing up in metro Atlanta rivers could be a tipping ...

Researchers at India’s University of Petroleum and Energy Studies say they’ve identified a way to turn unprecedented amounts of disposed personal protective equipment (PPE) plastic into biofuels. The ...

Businesses across industries have felt and reacted to the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. While many have faced challenges to their traditional business models, some have taken those ...

All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic. Surgical masks, gloves, protective equipment, body bags – the Covid-19 crisis has spurred a rapid expansion ...

Like many artists, the pandemic has affected how photographer Jackie Nickerson works. She’s unable to travel as much as in past years, and although she’s still been shooting for clients in the U.K., ...

Appalled by the tonnes of plastic trash generated by the pandemic, entrepreneurs are developing reusable PPE and turning single-use masks into everything from bricks to toolboxes LONDON, July 26 ...