Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”

COVID-19 pandemic is a designated worldwide public health emergency, the use of a variety of plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) has escalated as a means of reducing infection. Emerging reports imply that the rapid expansion of PPE during the COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated microplas...

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Autor principal: Chand, Aneesh A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34118439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.105995
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description COVID-19 pandemic is a designated worldwide public health emergency, the use of a variety of plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) has escalated as a means of reducing infection. Emerging reports imply that the rapid expansion of PPE during the COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated microplastics contamination in the ocean. In response, this letter to the editor will disclose the impact of PPEs on clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in regards to SDGs 6, 14, and 15, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-81887772021-06-10 Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji” Chand, Aneesh A. Int J Surg Article COVID-19 pandemic is a designated worldwide public health emergency, the use of a variety of plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) has escalated as a means of reducing infection. Emerging reports imply that the rapid expansion of PPE during the COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated microplastics contamination in the ocean. In response, this letter to the editor will disclose the impact of PPEs on clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in regards to SDGs 6, 14, and 15, respectively. IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-07 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8188777/ /pubmed/34118439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.105995 Text en © 2021 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
title Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
title_full Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
title_fullStr Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
title_full_unstemmed Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
title_short Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to the editor on “Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the lens of clean water sanitation, life below water, and life on land in Fiji”
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188777/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.105995
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