{"id":135010,"date":"2022-01-31T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-successfully-turned-used-masks-into-lithium-ion-density-batteries"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:45:17","slug":"scientists-successfully-turned-used-masks-into-lithium-ion-density-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-successfully-turned-used-masks-into-lithium-ion-density-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Successfully Turned Used Masks into Lithium-Ion Density Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-turned-used-masks-into-lithium-ion-density-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re low-cost and disposable.<\/p>\n<p>With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, humans have become reliant on personal protection equipment, or PPE, more and more with each wave of infection. While single-use face masks make up a large portion of PPE around the world, not much thought has been given to the proper disposal of these products.<\/p>\n<p>While these products are crucial in our fight against COVID-19, they undoubtedly take a toll on the environment, ending up in landfills and oceans, giving off toxic gases. In only 2020, 52 billion face masks were made and <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/156-billion-plastic-face-masks-ended-up-in-oceans-in-2020\">1.56 billion of them ended up in our oceans<\/a>. they\u2019re low-cost and disposable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they\u2019re low-cost and disposable. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, humans have become reliant on personal protection equipment, or PPE, more and more with each wave of infection. While single-use face masks make up a large portion of PPE around the world, not much thought has been given to the proper disposal of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}