Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Due to the dangers posed by plastic waste, and its negative effects on human health and the environment, many countries have been forced to search for the best ways to dispose of plastic waste, to keep its dangers away from natural people, living organisms, society and the environment in general.The Corona pandemic also represents a major challenge in the field of solid waste management, as many governments and local authorities have gone to suspend or postpone some of their policies related to single-use plastics, in favor of strengthening measures to mitigate the spread of infection.While the sixth Global Environment Outlook report, issued by the United Nations Environment Program in 2019, es mated the amount of plas c waste that reaches the oceans annually at about 8 million tons, the pandemic caused the addi on of about 129 billion masks and 65 billion plas c gloves that the world consumes every month as a result of the epidemic, Aquatic environments and living species are now threatened by an unprecedented rise in plastic pollution.A study from the British University of Leeds estimated the total amount of plastic that will pollute the Earth's and ocean environment in the next 20 years at 1.3 billion tons.Additionally, a new study has found that plant roots absorb particles from plastic waste, so they can end up in many of the grains and vegetables we eat regularly, suggesting that no food is free of plastic pollution.There are several steps, if used, to make the world free from the dangers of this type of pollutant, and the growing legislative concerns at the national and international levels, especially in the case of misuse of plastic waste.
Author: دينا إبراهيم أمين عبد
Institution: Zagazig University
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Pollution
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4301343237