ArticleConstruction and building materials2022
Effective recycling of disposable medical face masks for sustainable green concrete via a new fiber hybridization technique.
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- Hybrid Mortar Composites Incorporating Oyster Shell Filler and Recycled Fibers from Disposable Masks.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mechanical Behavior of Masonry Mortars Reinforced with Disposable Face Mask Strips.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A New Paradigm on Waste-to-Energy Applying Hydrovoltaic Energy Harvesting Technology to Face Masks.Polymers · 2024Article
- Design optimization and validation of UV-C illumination chamber for filtering facepiece respirators.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Recycling facemasks into civil construction material to manage waste generated during COVID-19.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- Global face mask pollution: threats to the environment and wildlife, and potential solutions.The Science of the total environment · 2023Review
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Abstract
Global public response to the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is highly focused on human health. However, conservationists have cautioned of unprecedented threats to the natural environment from a new type of non-biodegradable microplastic waste resulting from extensive use of disposable medical face masks (DMFMs). Thus, this waste must be recycled in an eco-friendly manner on an urgent basis. In this research, we developed a new environmentally friendly recycling technique using waste DMFMs in sustainable green concrete. More explicitly, a new fiber hybridization approach has been introduced in which two types of fibers namely DMFM fiber and basalt fiber (BF) were incorporated into fiber reinforced recycled aggregate concrete (FRAC). The volume fractions of DMFM fiber were 0%, 0.1%, and 0.2% and the volume fractions of BF were 0%, 0.25%, and 0.5%. In addition, two mineral admixtures (fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag) were also used. Test results indicated increase of approximately 12% in compressive strength, 26% in split tensile strength, and 60% in flexural strength of FRAC containing hybrid fibers and mineral admixtures. The density and ultra-sonic pulse velocity (UPV) of DMFM fiber- and BF-modified FRAC ranged from 2406-2433 kg/m
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