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

Ana L. Patrício Silva; Joana C. Prata; Tony R. Walker; Diana Campos; Armando C. Duarte; Amadeu M.V.M. Soares; Damià Barcelò; Teresa Rocha-Santos

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140565

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

Ana L. Patrício Silva, Joana C. Prata, Tony R. Walker, Diana Campos, Armando C. Duarte, Amadeu M.V.M. Soares, Damià Barcelò, Teresa Rocha-Santos

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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.

Idioma original	English
Número de artículo	140565
Publicación	Science of the Total Environment
Volumen	742
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140565
Estado	Published - nov. 10 2020

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Thanks are due to CESAM ( UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020 ), with the financial support from FCT/MCTES through national funds; and to the research project comPET ( PTDC/CTA-AMB/30361/2017 ) funded by FEDER , through COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI), and by national funds (OE), through FCT / MCTES , and also to the Integrated Program of SR&T D' Smart Valorisation of Endogenous Marine Biological Resources Under a Changing Climate’ (reference Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000018), co-funded by Centro (2020) program, Portugal 2020, European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund . J.C.P. and A.L.P.S. were funded by Portuguese Science Foundation ( FCT ) through scholarship PD/BD/135581/2018 and PD/BPD/114870/2016 + CEECIND/01366/2018 , respectively; under POCH funds, co-financed by the European Social Fund and Portuguese National Funds from MEC. T.R.W. was funded by a NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2018-04119 , and D.C. was funded by a research contract within the project comPET (nr. Contract: 5662 ).

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Patrício Silva, A. L., Prata, J. C., Walker, T. R., Campos, D., Duarte, A. C., Soares, A. M. V. M., Barcelò, D., & Rocha-Santos, T. (2020). 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. Science of the Total Environment, 742, Artículo 140565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140565

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. / Patrício Silva, Ana L.; Prata, Joana C.; Walker, Tony R. et al.
En: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 742, 140565, 10.11.2020.

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Patrício Silva, AL, Prata, JC, Walker, TR, Campos, D, Duarte, AC, Soares, AMVM, Barcelò, D & Rocha-Santos, T 2020, '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', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 742, 140565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140565

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