Rethinking and optimising plastic waste management under COVID-19 pandemic: Policy solutions based on redesign and reduction of single-use plastics and personal protective equipment
Rethinking and optimising plastic waste management under COVID-19 pandemic: Policy solutions based on redesign and reduction of single-use plastics and personal protective equipment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140565
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发表时间：
2020-11-10
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Rocha-Santos, Teresa
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作者：
Patricio Silva, Ana L.;Prata, Joana C.;Rocha-Santos, Teresa
在欧洲和世界各地，塑料一直是减少塑料泄漏和污染的首要政治议程。然而，COVID-19疫情严重扰乱了地区及国家层面的减塑政策，并导致塑料废物管理发生重大变化，可能对环境及人类健康造成负面影响。本文概述了塑料政策，并讨论了在新冠疫情沿着期间这些政策的调整及其潜在的环境影响。由于新冠疫情，塑料废物和成分突然增加，强调了加强减塑政策的迫切需要（并毫不拖延地将其付诸行动），扩大可持续和绿色塑料解决方案的创新，并立即开发动态和响应式废物管理系统。政策建议和未来的研究方向进行了讨论。(C)2020爱思唯尔B. V.保留所有权利。
Plastics have been on top of the political agenda in Europe and across the world to reduce plastic leakage and pollution. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted plastic reduction policies at the regional and national levels and induced significant changes in plastic waste management with potential for negative impacts in the environment and human health. This paper provides an overview of plastic policies and discusses the readjustments of these policies during the COVID-19 pandemic along with their potential environmental implications.The sudden increase in plastic waste and composition due to the COVID-19 pandemic underlines the crucial need to reinforce plastic reduction policies (and to implement them into action without delays), to scale up in innovation for sustainable and green plastics solutions, and to develop dynamic and responsive waste management systems immediately. Policy recommendations and future research directions are discussed. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.