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Impact of Microplastics Generated from Covid Biomedical Waste on Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Environmental science and engineering 2024
Binayak Prasad Behera, C. S. K. Mishra, Aliva Pattnaik, Tanushree Moharana, Debasmita Dubey

Summary

Researchers examined how the massive surge in COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) waste contributed to microplastic pollution in both aquatic and land-based ecosystems, raising concerns that the pandemic's environmental impact may extend well beyond its immediate health toll.

There was an unprecedented upsurge in the use of protective equipment (PPEs) and other medical appliances during the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of which the amount of biomedical waste generated by hospitals increased manifold. Since majority of these PPEs and...

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