THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN BRAZIL: A HEALTH AND POTENTIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT CRISIS

The current pandemic has caused problems in several segments. It is a health crisis, whose reflexes affect the economy, productive sectors and whose impacts also affect the environment. The encouragement of the use of masks for the general population and their improper disposal can cause, in addition to environmental impacts, aggravate the health crisis in emerging countries, like Brazil. For this reason, measures to prevent the accumulation of these residues must be adopted to avoid aggravating this pandemic and others that may arise.