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Disposable masks break into micro-sized plastic fibers that can take up to 450 years to decompose. (Photo: Getty Images) Despite most states ditching their mask mandates, and the Centers for Disease ...

President Joe Biden’s plan to distribute 400 million free N95 masks rolled out Tuesday. Though the disposable N95s are better at preventing transmission of COVID-19 than single-layer cloth masks, they ...

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has a new disposable waste problem: face masks. In just the first few months of the pandemic, an estimated 129 billion disposable face masks were used each ...