Drivers of public plastic (mis)use - New insights from changes in single-use plastic usage during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) has influenced resource use and how people interact with their environment, with changing priorities and competing public health factors affecting pro-environmental behaviours at individual, societal, business and political levels. We used data from an online plastic footprint calculator to explore temporal changes, purchasing patterns and consumer behaviours around on-the-go plastic use during the pandemic. We hypothesised that 1) people's plastic use when on-the-go would change in response to the pandemic and related government restrictions and; 2) single-use plastic use on-the-go would decrease during lockdown periods due to restrictions against leaving home. The calculator received 1937 responses, with 13,544 plastic items recorded. Most used were fo

SUBMITTER: Winton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature