DOI: 10.1039/d3en00343d ISSN:
Toxicity of particles and chemicals released from surgical face masks to the model aquatic organism Daphnia magna
Oluwadamilola Pikuda, Laura M. Hernandez, Dahyun Kyung, Qiqing Chen, Jun-Ray Macairan, Lan Liu, Xiaoyu Gao, Stéphane Bayen, Subhasis Ghoshal, Dimitrios Berk, Nathalie Tufenkji- General Environmental Science
- Materials Science (miscellaneous)
The use of single-use face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in indiscriminate disposal of face masks, some of which end up in the aquatic environment.