Last year, millions of single-use face masks were discarded around the world. Many of the discarded masks have been found polluting the coastal waters of places like California and clogging landfills.

Since the COVID pandemic, disposable masks have become the omnipresent trash du jour, ever reminding us that disease transmission is only one of the problems currently threatening the global ...

Disposable masks are necessary during COVID-19. But we’re burning through them at an astounding rate. Every minute we throw away 3 million masks, which adds up to 129 billion per month. To make ...