Kalina M, Tilley E. "This is our next problem": Cleaning up from the COVID-19 response.
WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020;
108:202-205. [PMID:
32414623 PMCID:
PMC7205701 DOI:
10.1016/j.wasman.2020.05.006]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Revised: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The purpose of this discussion is to highlight the essential role that solid waste management must play in a humanitarian response towards disasters, in particular the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We highlight a number of potential avenues for scholarly investigation into the waste impacts of our response to Covid-19, but in particular, briefly unpacks the relationship between disasters, consumption and disposability as one potential research topic. The discussion is intended to start a conversation that is, at the moment, critically relevant, and to contribute to a more inclusive, and less normatively Western waste management studies discourse.
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