Sustainable solutions: Searching for eco-friendly ways to decontaminate PPE

COVID-19 is a formidable enemy that has massively impacted our lives, but it has a weakness – it’s highly susceptible to disinfectants.

Fri, 22 May, 2020 - 13:30

Helen O’Callaghan

COVID-19 is a formidable enemy that has massively impacted our lives, but it has a weakness – it’s highly susceptible to disinfectants.

Irish researchers are now exploiting this weakness to explore eco-friendly and sustainable solutions to a worldwide problem – the chronic shortage of PPE.

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