Impact of Covid-19 on Domestic Wastes after Lockdown
2022
Sharma, Damini | Patil, Gunjan | Shah, Preety
To combat the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Government of India implemented a lockdown plan. The study's major goal was to evaluate the impact of lockdown over household trash, focusing on mask use and handling habits. An online questionnaire survey was done on n=268 households in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh, India, using the snowball sampling approach and n=34 waste collectors were interviewed offline. The population uses an average of two masks every week. Aside from that, a major per cent of participants observed an increase in the amount of medical waste in their household trash can during COVID–19 compared to prior years. The waste collectors noticed differences in the waste's physical qualities, such as a higher percentage of dry waste compared to moist waste. To reduce waste generation and overburdening at waste treatment sites, the "3R Masks Waste Reduction Model" has been proposed.
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