Recycling Covid-19 Personal Face Masks Used in Concrete

Recently, Covid-19 and other pandemics have led to a surge in the production and utilization of personal face masks, resulting in high increases in waste generation. Improper disposal of such waste endangers living organisms and the environment as most of these masks contain derivatives of plastics. In this research, face masks were cut into rectangular pieces of approximately 2cm by 4 cm and added to the concrete mix at different percentages: 2%, 2.5%, 5%, and 10% by volume.