Plastic pollution during COVID-19: Plastic waste directives and its long-term impact on the environment.
Long-term impacts
Micro and nanoscale plastics
Personal protective equipment
SARS-CoV-2
Single-use plastic
Journal
Environmental advances
ISSN: 2666-7657
Titre abrégé: Environ Adv
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101776495
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
Historique:
received:
02
06
2021
revised:
10
09
2021
accepted:
16
09
2021
entrez:
4
10
2021
pubmed:
5
10
2021
medline:
5
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Majority of the million tons of plastic produced each year is being disposed after single-use. Plastic bottle, bags, food containers, gloves, and cup that end up in landfills and environment could linger for hundreds to thousands of years. Moreover, COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), will also exacerbate the global plastic pollution as the use of personal protective equipment (PPE i.e., gloves, masks) became mandatory to prevent the spread of the virus. Plastic eventually breaking down in micro & nanoscopic bits due to physical or chemical or biological actions in the environment, can enter animal and human food web. So, plastic management programs need to be more robust with a focus on the prevention of the micro and nanoplastics entrance into the environment and food web. In the present pandemic situation, it is even more necessary to know about how much plastic waste is being generated and how different countries are coping up with their plastic waste management. In this review, we have elucidated how global plastic production rise during COVID-19 and how it would contribute to short and long-term impacts on the environment. Plastic pollution during the pandemic will increase the GHS emissions in the incineration facilities. Improper disposal of plastics into the oceans and lands would endanger the marine species and subsequently human lives. We have also assessed how the increased plastic pollution will aggravate the micro and nanoscale plastic problem, which have now become an emerging concern. This review will be helpful for people to understand the plastic usage and its subsequent consequences in the environment in a pandemic like COVID-19.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34604829
doi: 10.1016/j.envadv.2021.100119
pii: S2666-7657(21)00090-9
pmc: PMC8464355
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
100119Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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