Plastic waste footprint in the context of COVID-19: Reduction challenges and policy recommendations towards sustainable development goals.

ABSTRACT: The sudden surge in demand to use plastic products due to COVID-19 pandemic has increased plastic pollution. It has resulted into degradation of a broad range of habitats and ecosystems by destroying natural functions, water quality, and environmental sustainability. However, the government agencies, scientific communities, and the public, have started to give attention to this issue. So, in the present study, we used the correlation methods to check the relationship between COVID-19 affected population with the medical plastic waste (MPW) that has developed a conceptual model of the inter-linkages between the preventive measures of COVID-19 pandemic problems and the reduction challenges of plastic waste during and after pandemic scenarios. Emerging issues in the waste management during an

SUBMITTER: Mallick SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487300 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature