The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are There Any Impacts on Sustainability?

Begum, Halima, Alam, ASA Ferdous, Leal Filho, Walter, Awang, Abd Hair and Ghani, Ahmad Bashawir Abdul (2021) The COVID-19 Pandemic: Are There Any Impacts on Sustainability? Sustainability, 13 (21). p. 11956.

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Abstract

This paper sets out to explain and describe the potential ways to control COVID-19′s impact on the environment and what controllable strategies and anticipations emerge from rethinking sustainable production. The rapid and devastating spread of this disease has made millions of people throughout the world cover themselves, wear gloves, and use hand sanitizers and other medical applications. However, it means that a huge amount of clinical waste is being dumped into landfills or the oceans, and such activity may simply worsen the infection’s transmission and the sustainability of the environment, the socio-economy, and sustainable productions. This disease has greatly changed the way people live and has caused considerable occupational job losses and misfortunes, sending sustainable businesses and other organizations to the wall. Virtually every country is trying to stop the infection transmission by testing patients and isolating people, but the environmental effects of the pandemic and sustainable business have not previously been analyzed. The study suggests that the current options for sustainable production must be measured and also further researched.