{"title":"Plastic Pandemic after COVID-19: A Global Health Concern.","authors":"C Sahni, K R C Reddy, A K Nayak, S Seth","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5060","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>COVID-19 pandemic has increased the amount of plastic burden to environment and complexities of plastic waste management. Change in behavioral pattern with advent of this pandemic led to increased practice of hygiene and increased use of different types of personal protective equipment. Unfortunately, rapid rise in production of the PPEs (like Hazmat suit, gloves, etc.) and single-use plastics used in RT-PCR and other testing are the biggest source for increased non-biodegradable plastic waste leading to amplified burden on plastic waste management. A number of measures like prioritizing the policies directed towards changes at behavioral, social and institutional level need to be started. Also, reduction in plastic waste along with proper plastic waste management policies should be implemented. To prevent the transition from one pandemic to other; improvement in government policies with public private partnership are the need of the hour.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":"175 3","pages":"181-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinica Terapeutica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5060","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: COVID-19 pandemic has increased the amount of plastic burden to environment and complexities of plastic waste management. Change in behavioral pattern with advent of this pandemic led to increased practice of hygiene and increased use of different types of personal protective equipment. Unfortunately, rapid rise in production of the PPEs (like Hazmat suit, gloves, etc.) and single-use plastics used in RT-PCR and other testing are the biggest source for increased non-biodegradable plastic waste leading to amplified burden on plastic waste management. A number of measures like prioritizing the policies directed towards changes at behavioral, social and institutional level need to be started. Also, reduction in plastic waste along with proper plastic waste management policies should be implemented. To prevent the transition from one pandemic to other; improvement in government policies with public private partnership are the need of the hour.
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La Clinica Terapeutica è una rivista di Clinica e Terapia in Medicina e Chirurgia, fondata nel 1951 dal Prof. Mariano Messini (1901-1980), Direttore dell''Istituto di Idrologia Medica dell''Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. La rivista è pubblicata come “periodico bimestrale” dalla Società Editrice Universo, casa editrice fondata nel 1945 dal Comm. Luigi Pellino. La Clinica Terapeutica è indicizzata su MEDLINE, INDEX MEDICUS, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica.
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