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DOI	10.1038/s41893-021-00824-1
	Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures
	Roberts K.P.; Phang S.C.; Williams J.B.; Hutchinson D.J.; Kolstoe S.E.; de Bie J.; Williams I.D.; Stringfellow A.M.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2398-9629
英文摘要	Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce virus transmission. Here, we quantitatively analyse emergence of PPE and COVID-19-related litter over 14 months for 11 countries using the litter collection application Litterati. The proportion of masks in litter increased by >80-fold as a result of COVID-19 legislation, from <0.01% to >0.8%. Gloves and wipes, more prevalent at ~0.2% of litter before the pandemic, doubled to 0.4%, but this has since fallen. Glove litter increased in the initial stages of the pandemic but fell after the introduction of facemask policies, whereupon there was an increase of facemask litter. National COVID-19 policy responses and international World Health Organization announcements and recommendations are a probable driver of PPE litter dynamics, especially the implementation of facemask policies. Waste management should be incorporated in designing future pandemic policies to avoid negative environmental legacies of mismanaged PPE. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Viruses; Waste management; Personal protective equipment; Virus transmission; World Health Organization; Protective clothing
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249862
作者单位	School of Civil Engineering & Surveying, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom; Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom; School of Health and Care Professions, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom; Coastal and Marine Research Centre, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia; Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; The Nature Conservancy, London, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roberts K.P.,Phang S.C.,Williams J.B.,et al. Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures[J],2021.
APA	Roberts K.P..,Phang S.C..,Williams J.B..,Hutchinson D.J..,Kolstoe S.E..,...&Stringfellow A.M..(2021).Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures.Nature Sustainability.
MLA	Roberts K.P.,et al."Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures".Nature Sustainability (2021).