TY  - JOUR
KW  - Food waste
KW  -  Consumption patterns; Economic problems; Emergency situation; International studies; Municipal utility; Packaged products; Plastic packaging; Waste management systems
KW  -  Waste management
KW  -  plastic
KW  -  COVID-19; domestic waste; municipal solid waste; trend analysis; waste disposal; waste management
KW  -  Article; catering service; controlled study; convenience food; coronavirus disease 2019; domestic waste; food intake; food packaging; food waste; hospital waste; lockdown; municipal waste; pandemic; plastic waste; trend study; waste management; whole food; city; communicable disease control; food; human; waste disposal; waste management
KW  -  Cities; Communicable Disease Control; COVID-19; Food; Humans; Pandemics; Refuse Disposal; SARS-CoV-2; Waste Management
ID  - scholars14721
TI  - COVID-19 and waste production in households: A trend analysis
N1  - cited By 74
N2  - Apart from the health aspects and the high death toll, the COVID-19 pandemic has, since its official recognition in March 2020 caused may social and economic problems. It has also led to many environmental ones. For instance, the lockdowns have led to higher levels of consumption of packaged products, and of take-away food. This paper reports on an international study on the increased consumption and subsequent changes in the amounts of waste produced since the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that 45â??48 of the respondents observed an increased consumption of packed food, fresh food, and food delivery. One of the main reasons for the increased waste generation during the lockdown was the fact that people have spent more time at home. In addition, increases of 43 and 53 in food waste and plastic packaging. Drawing from comparisons on the amount of domestic waste produced before and during the pandemic, the findings suggest that some specific types of municipal waste have visibly increased, putting additional pressure on waste management systems. This characterises one of non-intended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results from this study provide useful insights to city administrations and municipal utilities on consumption patterns during emergency situations. This, in turn, may support more systemic and strategic measures to be taken, so as to curtail the increase of household waste during pandemic situations. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
AV  - none
VL  - 777
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85101841764&doi=10.1016%2fj.scitotenv.2021.145997&partnerID=40&md5=845d4250d4ba0f1b6a7d226e7dca87f4
JF  - Science of the Total Environment
A1  - Filho, W.L.
A1  - Voronova, V.
A1  - Kloga, M.
A1  - Paço, A.
A1  - Minhas, A.
A1  - Salvia, A.L.
A1  - Ferreira, C.D.
A1  - Sivapalan, S.
SN  - 00489697
PB  - Elsevier B.V.
Y1  - 2021///
ER  -