This is the year 2020... let start living like it!
Garrett Benisch and Elizabeth Bridges of Sum Studio created a mask, called the “Xylinum mask,” out of bacterial cellulose, a by-product of a common bacteria called xylinum acetobacter. According to Benisch and Bridges, you can grow the bacteria with a few simple ingredients in your kitchen: water, tea, sugar, and a small bacterial sample of xylinum acetobacter. That last ingredient might sound intimidating, but it’s easy to find: simply use unflavored kombucha.
This cellulose sheet is durable enough to sew. It's reusable and compostable! under a microscope, you can see that the bacteria actually grows in a woven pattern so that make it a good filter to keep virus out. This could be our future!!!