P2: Covid 19

Question 1

Statistics

Answer 1

The pandemic caused an unprecedented rise in single use plastic and an excess of 8 million tonnes of waste was generated, 25,000 tonnes of which was expected to enter the oceans. (Ang, 2023)

Question 2

Causes

Answer 2

increased single use packaging from food delivery, and increased single use medical products ie hand sanitiser bottles, gloves and face masks (only 3% of which were reusable). Al Quahtani, 2021