Waste management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Bibliometric and text mining analyses

Ranjbari, Meisam; Esfandabadi, Zahra Shams; Gautam, Sneha; Ferraris, Alberto; Scagnelli, Simone Domenico

doi:10.1016/j.gr.2021.12.015

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“…The results investigated in this study pointed out how the Brazilian respondents perceive the change in household waste generated before and during the pandemic, and their views regarding policy measures. As presented by Ranjbari et al [23], research on post-COVID-19 initiatives in terms of waste management should include a system-thinking approach, a circular economy model and development of informal sectors and local capacity. Based on the views of the Brazilian respondents, particularly on the need for information campaigns and citizen engagement, those research [23] needs also apply to the analysed national context, as supported by other investigations [60,62].…”

Section: Individual and Public Waste Management Practicesmentioning

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“…An example of difference on countries strategies of waste management, it can be mentioned the initiative of some nations to improve safety measures for waste management to deal with the increase in contaminated waste in domestic trash [22]. As a positive manner to learn with the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible to mention the better understanding that the waste management should be considered in the context of a circular economy [23]. Indeed, Sharma et al [24] mention that the circular economy approach focused on solid waste management should be prioritized in the post-COVID-19 scenario, with an active engagement of policy makers, that can create green jobs.…”

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Assessing the Connections between COVID-19 and Waste Management in Brazil

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In addition to the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, several countries—particularly in developing regions—faced serious additional challenges in the economic, social and environmental areas. In Brazil, one of these challenges refers to the changes in consumption caused by the lockdowns, and the environmental impacts caused by new patterns of waste generation. Against this background, this paper investigates the changes in consumption and waste generation in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a technical contribution to the topic by comparing the perception of survey respondents on the amount of household waste produced before and during the pandemic, and cross-checking these with information on current aspects of policymaking, the findings suggest that the amount of some specific types of household waste has noticeably increased, challenging even more the local waste management systems. The data instrument was validated by a pre-test, prior to deployment. According to the respondents, packaging (both plastic and paper/cardboard) was the type of waste that reported the highest increase in generation during the lockdowns, which is in line with the results of increased consumption of food delivery within this period. The results also suggest that current waste management policies make Brazil ill-equipped to deal with one of the non-intended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely impacted Latin America’s largest country.

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“…A bibliometric analysis can also be used to assess different features of a certain study topic. Bibliometrics were applied to examine climate change vulnerability, haze study, COVID-19 research, and low carbon education research [17][18][19]. This study is a comprehensive analysis that was carried out in the field of PMEH in the last decade with complete information and the effect of all dependent parameters.…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Low-Cost Piezoelectric Micro-Energy Harvesting Systems from Ambient Energy Sources: Current Trends, Issues and Suggestions

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The scientific interest in piezoelectric micro-energy harvesting (PMEH) has been fast-growing, demonstrating that the field has made a major improvement in the long-term evolution of alternative energy sources. Although various research works have been performed and published over the years, only a few attempts have been made to examine the research’s influence in this field. Therefore, this paper presents a bibliometric study into low-cost PMEH from ambient energy sources within the years 2010–2021, outlining current research trends, analytical assessment, novel insights, impacts, challenges and recommendations. The major goal of this paper is to provide a bibliometric evaluation that is based on the top-cited 100 articles employing the Scopus databases, information and refined keyword searches. This study analyses various key aspects, including PMEH emerging applications, authors’ contributions, collaboration, research classification, keywords analysis, country’s networks and state-of-the-art research areas. Moreover, several issues and concerns regarding PMEH are identified to determine the existing constraints and research gaps, such as technical, modeling, economics, power quality and environment. The paper also provides guidelines and suggestions for the development and enhancement of future PMEH towards improving energy efficiency, topologies, design, operational performance and capabilities. The in-depth information, critical discussion and analysis of this bibliometric study are expected to contribute to the advancement of the sustainable pathway for PMEH research.

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“…Last 2 years, the whole world is being threatened by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) (Ranjbari et al 2022 ; Ravina et al 2021 ; Ranjbari et al 2021 ; Rahimi and Abadi 2020 ). Wang et al ( 2021 ) discussed the strong association between COVID-19 and health issues, with 3.5 million official casualties being reported and many remaining uncounted.…”

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Air pollution in five Indian megacities during the Christmas and New Year celebration amidst COVID-19 pandemic

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Urban air quality and COVID-19 have been considered significant issues worldwide in the last few years. The current study highlighted the variation in air pollutants (i.e., PM 2.5 , PM 10 , NO 2 , and SO 2 ) profile between Christmas and new year celebrations in 2019, 2020, and 2021. It can be seen that the concentration of selected air pollutants shows a substantially higher concentration in celebration periods in all reported years. The results indicate that air pollutants values are always higher than permissible limits. This observation indicates that people gather and reunite during Christmas and new year celebrations than the preceding years (2020 and 2021) amidst the pandemic. In the pandemic year, a higher margin enhanced the transportation and firework-induced air pollutant load in urban city Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In all states, a significant tendency was observed to retain the concentration profile of air pollutants in baseline concentration for almost more than one week after the celebration. This study addresses the pandemic situation, but it also dealt with the air pollutant parameter that brings down the sustainable quality of the environment due to the high usage of private vehicles, and crackers. In addition, a study on COVID-19 (cases and death rate) indicates a clear picture of the increasing trend after the event in probably all states. Thus, this approach suggested that stringent law enforcement is needed to ameliorate gatherings/reunions and pollution levels due to such events.

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Waste management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Bibliometric and text mining analyses

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Cited by 52 publications

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Assessing the Connections between COVID-19 and Waste Management in Brazil

Assessing the Connections between COVID-19 and Waste Management in Brazil

A Bibliometric Analysis of Low-Cost Piezoelectric Micro-Energy Harvesting Systems from Ambient Energy Sources: Current Trends, Issues and Suggestions

Air pollution in five Indian megacities during the Christmas and New Year celebration amidst COVID-19 pandemic

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