COVID-19, Wastewater, and Sanitation - COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheet 9
Raw sewage, and partially-treated wastewater, is a vehicle for spreading diseases and a potential means for COVID-19 to spread faster, for example in areas where sanitation is poor, or where the communities are exposed to open-sewers and black water. COVID-19 brings additional challenges with the increased use of medical products, masks and gloves made of plastics, textiles, and other single-use products that are discarded in the open environment or in existing drainage system, contributing to the already alarming amounts of plastics, microplastics, and microfibers pollution in wastewater.
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| Format: | Factsheets, Infographics and Brochures biblioteca |
| Language: | English French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian Hindi Portuguese |
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2020
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| Subjects: | COVID-19, WASTEWATER, SANITATION, SEWAGE, |
| Online Access: | https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/32802 |
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| Summary: | Raw sewage, and partially-treated wastewater, is a vehicle for spreading diseases and a potential means for COVID-19 to spread faster, for example in areas where sanitation is poor, or where the communities are exposed to open-sewers and black water. COVID-19 brings additional challenges with the increased use of medical products, masks and gloves made of plastics, textiles, and other single-use products that are discarded in the open environment or in existing drainage system, contributing to the already alarming amounts of plastics, microplastics, and microfibers pollution in wastewater. |
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