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cord-338365-9sd62a2w	Patrício Silva, Ana L.	Increased plastic pollution due to Covid-19 pandemic: challenges and recommendations	2020-08-17		.txt	text/plain	7418	354	42	This paper provides a comprehensive review on the potential impact of COVID-19 pandemic precautionary measures in the environment while considering the shift on public behaviour and policies towards single-use items and waste management. At first glance COVID-19 pandemic seems to be indirectly contributing towards the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (namely 11, 12, 13, 15 SGDs) by increasing overall health and safety of cities by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), outdoor air pollution, environmental noise level (including underwater noise due to reduced marine transportation activities), land and wildlife pressure. While the positive impacts of COVID-19 in the environment are resulting from a "postponed" anthropogenic activity that soon will entail after the pandemic scenario; the negative short-term effects (that are mostly related with plastic use, consumption and waste mismanagement as discussed below) will shortly add-up to the current environmental issues, aggravating their impact in the natural ecosystems and compromising potential mitigation/remediation measures.	./cache/cord-338365-9sd62a2w.txt	./txt/cord-338365-9sd62a2w.txt