Release of Microplastics from Discarded Surgical Masks and Their Adverse Impacts on the Marine Copepod Tigriopus japonicus

Our member Dr. Henry Yuhe HE found that discarded surgical masks release 1370 trillion microplastics into coastal marine environment annually, adversely impacting marine copepods and potentially harming other organisms. Published on Environmental Science & Technology Letters: 
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00748