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 ...

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.

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 ...

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(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.

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 ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a mountain of plastic waste, as healthcare workers don new personal protective equipment every day in the fight against the disease. The U.K. government alone has ...