Abaca Face Mask
Description If you are selecting the BUNDLE OF 3, please specify your preferred face mask colors in the Order Notes section of your Shopping Cart. We will try our best to accommodate color requests, but due to limited stocks on hand, serving of requests will be subject to availability.In an effort to help reduce COVID-19/single-use plastic waste and to help make a living while the pandemic is ongoing, artisans from Catanduanes Island in Bicol, Philippines re-purposed their production of abaca paper craft products into abaca-based face masks. Abaca face masks are:• An eco-friendly, sustainable alternative to disposable and reusable face masks• Biodegradable• Washable• Reusable• Organic• Lightweight As reported by Bloomberg, abaca is as strong as polyester – but unlike polyester, it can decompose in just two months.Recent studies by the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST) show that abaca-based face masks have a filtration rate 7x better than cloth masks and have a