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cord-258846-v6aaflzc	Shruti, V.C.	Reusable masks for COVID-19: A missing piece of the microplastic problem during the global health crisis	2020-10-20		.txt	text/plain	3161	151	49	In developing countries such as Thailand, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam, and South Africa, where surgical and N95 masks have been reserved for health care providers or are scarce, the main alternative for the general public seems to be the use of nonmedical reusable masks made up of fabric or cloth. Considering that plastic pollution in the marine environment is a global issue, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic-induced changes, an increasing number of research papers have raised concerns about plastic waste management and the improper disposal of PPE (Sharma et al., 2020; Silva et al., 2020) . As textiles have become an important source of microplastics, arguably, it is important to consider including reusable masks in microplastic research to address questions concerning its contribution to microfiber generation during machineand hand-laundering. Covid-19 face masks: a potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment	./cache/cord-258846-v6aaflzc.txt	./txt/cord-258846-v6aaflzc.txt