2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142014
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Abstract: COVID-19 has been sweeping the world. The overall number of infected persons has been increased from 5 M in March 2020 to over 22 M in August 2020 and growing, which seems not to get its peak at the current stage. This has contributed to waste generation and different phases of challenges in waste management practices. The impacts including change in waste amount, composition, timing/frequency (temporal), distribution (spatial) and risk, which affects the handling and treatment practices. Recent impacts, chall… Show more

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“…For instance, Singapore households generated extra 1334 tons of plastic waste in April 2020, which can be attributed to the change in consumer behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Fan et al, 2021 ). During the first lockdown, the City of Melbourne reported a 70% increase in illegally dumped waste in April 2020, compared with the same period in 2019 (Farrer, 2020 ).…”
Section: Indirect Impacts Of Covid-19 On the Environment Of The Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, Singapore households generated extra 1334 tons of plastic waste in April 2020, which can be attributed to the change in consumer behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Fan et al, 2021 ). During the first lockdown, the City of Melbourne reported a 70% increase in illegally dumped waste in April 2020, compared with the same period in 2019 (Farrer, 2020 ).…”
Section: Indirect Impacts Of Covid-19 On the Environment Of The Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…You et al [50] appealed to unsustainable waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic, that is followed by the rethinking of plastic waste management and policy solutions [51] , the challenges and opportunities for effective solid waste management [52] , and the environmental pollutants, impacts, and recommendations for facing future threats [53] . Fan et al [54] compared COVID-19 related waste management in Singapore and another two cities, including Shanghai in China and Brno, Czech Republic in the EU. The impacts of COVID-19 on waste generation behaviours were found to be diverse, which significantly depended on different sociological and geographical factors.…”
Section: Pandemic Running – the Environmental Impacts And Stabilisingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Figure 3 shows the spatial difference of the change rate of solid waste generation caused by COVID-19. Compared to medical waste and plastic waste, household waste has presented more complicated changes, e.g., a 28% reduction in Milan, Italy, and a 17% fall in Catalonia, Spain [ 116 ], a 25% reduction in Barcelona, Spain [ 120 ], a 15% fall in Campinas-SP, Brazil [ 121 ], a 23% decrease in Shanghai, China [ 122 ], and a 30% reduction in major cities of China [ 89 ].…”
Section: The Changes In the Environment—air Pollution And Solid Wamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, due to the geographical, sociological and cultural factors, some cities present converse trends, e.g., a 1% elevation in Brno, Czech Republic [ 122 ], a 3% increase in Singapore [ 123 ], a 4.2% climbing in New York, US [ 124 ], a 12 to 15% increase in residential garbage in some municipalities of Ontario, Canada [ 125 ], and a 35% bloom in Sydney, Australia [ 126 ]. Some towns observed 20 to 40% more waste during the lockdown period in Singapore [ 127 ].…”
Section: The Changes In the Environment—air Pollution And Solid Wamentioning
confidence: 99%