Many people continue choosing to wear a mask in public places, and some cities like New York and San Francisco have kept mandates in place. But other people can’t get rid of those cloth coverings ...

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 ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Throughout the pandemic, we've all thrown away our fair share of masks, but now, researchers at UW-Madison are working to make recycling masks a reality. “We've developed a new ...

It may be time to break out the face masks again. COVID-19 cases are on the rise nationwide due to a new omicron subvariant, EG.5, nicknamed “Eris.” Though Wisconsin isn't getting hit hard yet, ...

Tangling animals’ legs together, floating across city streets and swimming in oceans after journeying through sewers, face masks have found themselves in just about every nook and cranny of the ...

UIWANG, South Korea (Reuters) - How many disposable masks does it take to make a stool? Kim Ha-neul knows it takes 1,500. Bothered by the waste caused by disposable face masks, many of which are made ...