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The issue of plastic use during the Covid-19 pandemic
Summary
This Spanish-language review discusses how plastic use surged during COVID-19 quarantine periods and examines the environmental consequences of increased plastic waste. The article highlights that single-use plastics used for hygiene and delivery packaging contributed to elevated microplastic accumulation in ecosystems during the pandemic.
El presente artculo tiene por objetivo revisar investigaciones sobre el uso de los productos plsticos durante el periodo de cuarentena de la covid-19 y discutir sobre el efecto de sus desechos en el medioambiente. Los desechos plsticos constituyen un problema ambiental a nivel global, pues se acumulan en los ecosistemas y en los organismos a travs de las cadenas trficas, bajo la forma de microplsticos y macroplsticos. Adems, pueden permanecer durante mucho tiempo estables hasta ser degradados a formas ms simples (monmeros), que finalmente son mineralizadas. En nuestro pas se han realizado esfuerzos por minimizar su impacto a travs de una reduccin gradual de la produccin de plsticos de primer uso y su consumo en la poblacin. Sin embargo, el impacto de la pandemia de la covid-19 ha generado el efecto contrario, un incremento en el uso generalizado de productos descartables plsticos, como envases de alimentos y dispositivos mdicos como mascarillas, guantes, trajes de proteccin, entre otros, tanto de origen hospitalario como domstico. Por ello, se describen las estrategias para el tratamiento del material biocontaminado plstico,
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