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An Environmental Dilemma for China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Explosion of Disposable Plastic Wastes
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology2021
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A. Dick Vethaak,
Lihui An
Jianli Liu,
Jianli Liu,
Jianli Liu,
Jianli Liu,
Jiannan Ding,
Jianli Liu,
Lihui An
A. Dick Vethaak,
Jianli Liu,
Jiannan Ding,
Jiannan Ding,
Jiannan Ding,
Yang Yun-fei,
Yang Yun-fei,
A. Dick Vethaak,
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Jiannan Ding,
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Jiannan Ding,
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Yang Yun-fei,
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Jiannan Ding,
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Jiannan Ding,
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Lihui An
Lihui An
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Qiang Liu,
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Lihui An
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Lihui An
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Lihui An
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Summary
Researchers analyzed how China's COVID-19 response — including mass online delivery and widespread mask use — created a surge in single-use plastic waste that undermined the country's 2020 plastic ban, highlighting the tension between pandemic management and plastic pollution control.
Plastic pollution control has been on top of the political agenda in China. In January 2020, China announced a phased ban on the production and usage of various types of single-use plastics as a solution to environmental pollution problems. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 seems to be a new obstacle to the ban on single-use plastic products. To basically satisfied the daily necessities and contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 under the background of the regular epidemic prevention and control in China, online ordering, contactless delivery and wearing mask have become an important and feasible way of daily life. However, the unrestrained use of disposable plastic bags, lunch boxes and masks within the nationwide quarantine leads to hundreds of millions of plastics wastes every day. The potential environmental pollution caused by the use of disposable plastic products during the pandemic should arouse social concern. The Chinese government should manage environmental protection in parallel with anti-pandemic endeavors as the situation of the pandemic evolves.