The impact of successive COVID-19 lockdowns on people mobility, lockdown efficiency, and municipal solid waste.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has induced many issues for all societal sectors, in particular in the production and disposal of municipal solid waste. This may be because successive easing and reimposing of lockdown measures have deeply changed people's movements, consumers' behaviors and waste management. Previous studies have focused on the short-term effects of lockdowns on waste changes, yet there is little knowledge on waste variations during successive lockdowns and unlocking of various lockdown intensities. Moreover, the efficiency of lockdown and its relation to people's mobility in different countries are still not clear. Here, we studied the variations of amount and composition of municipal solid waste before the pandemic in 2019 and during the pandemic in 2020-2021 in USA, Brazil, Canad

SUBMITTER: Cai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325046 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature