The use of Google community mobility reports to model residential waste generation behaviors during and after the COVID-19 lockdown

TS Mahmud, KTW Ng, S Ray, L Lyu, C An - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposed an original analytical approach to quantify waste generation and
recycling behaviors in Regina, a Canadian capital city, using Google's Community Mobility …

A multi-jurisdictional study on the quantification of COVID-19 household plastic waste in six Latin American countries

NP Requena-Sanchez, D Carbonel, L Demel… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
This study examines urban plastic waste generation using a citizen science approach in six
Latin American countries during a global pandemic. The objectives are to quantify …

The price of quietness: How a pandemic affects city dwellers' response to road traffic noise

Y Wang, Y Tu, Y Fan - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Using the outbreak of COVID-19 in Singapore as a quasi-natural experiment, we investigate
tenants' changing responses to road traffic noise in the rental housing market, using 46,980 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of construction and demolition waste disposal behaviors during COVID-19 using satellite imagery

S Ray, KTW Ng, TS Mahmud, A Richter… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted conventional municipal solid waste (MSW) management
practices and affected waste generation rates. While MSW streams have been extensively …

Variability of the treated biomedical waste disposal behaviours during the COVID lockdowns

P Kumari, TS Mahmud, KTW Ng, R Chowdhury… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Literature review suggests that studies on biomedical waste generation and disposal
behaviors in North America are limited. Given the infectious nature of the materials, effective …

Sustainability, profitability, and resiliency of the fast fashion industries during a pandemic

M Meskini, TS Mahmud, S Ray, A Richter… - Energy & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The size of the global textile market was estimated at nearly one trillion USD in 2021 and the
circularity of fashion items are of utmost practical and economic interests. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal analysis of settlement areas and city footprints on construction and demolition waste quantification using Landsat satellite imagery

S Ray, KTW Ng, TS Mahmud, A Richter… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste management has seen a surge in the use of satellite imagery in
decision-making processes, yet its application to analyze quantitative variations in …

Disentangling the direct and indirect impacts of non-pharmaceutical interventions on production activities and carbon emissions

C He, X Zhou, Y Huang, A Shui, S Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been crucial in mitigating the COVID-19
pandemic, yet they've also heterogeneously disrupted production across sectors …

Investigating the variance in the adaptation pathways of US municipal solid waste management systems to the COVID-19 pandemic

H Jalloul, AD Pinto, J Choi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
The coronavirus pandemic has presented significant challenges to municipal solid waste
management systems (MSMWSs). To adequately serve their communities, MSWMSs have …

Prophet time series modeling of waste disposal rates in four North American cities

MM Hasan, KTW Ng, S Ray, A Assuah… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
In this study, three different univariate municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal rate forecast
models (SARIMA, Holt-Winters, Prophet) were examined using different testing periods in …