Increased plastic pollution due to COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and recommendations

ALP Silva, JC Prata, TR Walker, AC Duarte… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastics have become a severe transboundary threat to natural ecosystems and human
health, with studies predicting a twofold increase in the number of plastic debris (including …

Supply chains under COVID-19 disruptions: literature review and research agenda

IN Pujawan, AU Bah - Supply chain forum: An international journal, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has massively disrupted supply chains at the
global and local scales resulting in economic slowdown and social issues. To respond to …

Increased plastic pollution due to COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and recommendations

AL Patrício Silva, JC Prata, TR Walker, AC Duarte… - 2020 - digital.csic.es
Plastics have become a severe transboundary threat to natural ecosystems and human
health, with studies predicting a twofold increase in the number of plastic debris (including …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 lockdown and reduction of traffic accidents in Tarragona province, Spain

Ò Saladié, E Bustamante, A Gutiérrez - Transportation research …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the impact that the lockdown decreed by the Spanish Government to
combat the spread of COVID-19 has had on traffic accidents in Tarragona province (Spain) …

COVID-19 and quality of life: Twelve reflections

DTL Shek - Applied research in quality of life, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 has severely affected the world since December 2020. Because of its sudden
onset and highly contagious nature, the world has responded in a “crisis management” …

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on bike-sharing usage: The case of Thessaloniki, Greece

A Nikiforiadis, G Ayfantopoulou, A Stamelou - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect in urban mobility, while essential changes
are being observed in travelers' behavior. Travelers in many cases shifted to other transport …

Food packaging wastes amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Trends and challenges

WQ de Oliveira, HMC de Azeredo, IA Neri-Numa… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 crisis generated changes in consumer behavior related to food
purchase and the management of food packaging. Due to the intensification of online …

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on ambient air quality in megacities of India and implication for air pollution control strategies

K Ravindra, T Singh, A Biswal, V Singh… - Environmental Science and …, 2021 - Springer
The impact of restrictions during various phases of COVID-19 lockdown on daily mean PM
2.5 concentration in five Indian megacities (New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, and …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on air quality: a systematic review

ACT Silva, PTBS Branco, SIV Sousa - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, several governments imposed severe
restrictions on socio-economic activities, putting most of the world population into a general …

[HTML][HTML] 5 The Great Disrupter: COVID‐19's Impact on Migration, Mobility and Migrants Globally

M McAuliffe, LF Freier, R Skeldon… - World migration …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The year 2020 will go down in history as the “Year of COVID-19”, when a new coronavirus
emerged and spread across the world in a series of waves that by 2021 had impacted the …