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Plastic Pollution During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Disaster in the Making

2023 1 citation ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Sangita Agarwal, Pritam Mukherjee, Joystu Dutta, Tirthankar Sen, Ashish Kumar, Abhijit Mitra

Summary

Researchers assessed how the COVID-19 pandemic created a plastic pollution crisis, finding that while mobility restrictions temporarily reduced some environmental pressures, the surge in single-use protective equipment and packaging generated massive new streams of plastic waste with significant ecological consequences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all spheres of human life and the global environmental parameters to a large extent. Research studies by scientists across the globe pointed out that COVID-19 is both a boon and a bane for the environment. While safety restrictions...

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