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Trackers and Live Blogs
- Tracker: COVID-19 Impacts on U.S. Plastics Policy
- The Climate Rules Being Rolled Back During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- What might supply chains look like after COVID-19?
Production and consumption
- Amount Of Plastic Waste Is Surging Because Of The Coronavirus
- 41% of Americans Say They’re Using Single-Use Plastics Less
- 500 construction workers to go back to work on Shell’s ethane cracker
- Plastic Takeaway Containers Market May See Potentially High Growth
New trash in the environment
- What is Happening to Our Disposed Masks and Gloves
- Coronavirus plastic waste polluting the environment
- Discarded masks and gloves are becoming a health hazard
- Used masks finding their way into oceans
- Discarded face masks and gloves rising threat to ocean life
- Coronavirus lockdown leading to increase in illegal roadside dumping
- Ocean advocate raises alarm as masks wash up on beaches
- Yet Another Consequence of the Pandemic: More Plastic Waste
- Coronavirus Trash: Face Masks, Plastic Gloves Discarded on Streets
- Discarded coronavirus masks clutter Hong Kong’s beaches, trails
- Surgical Masks On The Beaches
Health aspects of plastics
- Confronting the chemicals that are worsening COVID-19
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals weaken Americans’ life-or-death battles
- How toxic chemicals contribute to COVID-19 deaths
- Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2
- What We Know—and Don’t Know—about Plastics and the Coronavirus
- COVID-19 Infection Prevention in Grocery Stores
- Use of single use plastics in fighting Corona
- Coronavirus: Cruise ship had genetic traces of the virus for 17 days
- How long the coronavirus will last on surfaces, and how to disinfect them
- How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You?
- New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces
- COVID-19 Transmission ‘Plausible’ on Surfaces, in the Air
- Microbiological contamination of reusable plastic bags for food transportation
- Reusable grocery bag carried nasty norovirus, scientists say (2012)
- Assessment of the Potential for Cross-contamination of Food Products by Reusable Shopping Bags (2011, supported by American Chemistry Council)
- Survival of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (2005)
Is Zero Waste still possible?
- Loop’s zero-waste delivery service is expanding to the whole US
- Podcast: Sustaining Positivity in a Pandemic
- Unverpackt einkaufen? Geht das in Zeiten von Corona noch?
- Zero Waste Live! (Webinar) COVID-19 and zero waste
- Podcast: Reuse, Resilience, and COVID-19
- Upstream Solutions: Plastic pollution, reuse and COVID-19
- Covid-19 Fears Shouldn’t Trash Your Zero Waste Efforts
Changes in policies
- Driving home‘single-use’: Plastic politics in the times of the Covid-19
- California Lifts Ban on Plastic Bags Amid Virus Concerns
- California lifts plastic bag ban over coronavirus concerns
- No, the Pandemic Isn’t an Excuse to Go Back to Single-Use Plastics
- Trashing environment won’t solve coronavirus crisis
- Exploiting COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries
- Podcast: How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
- EU dismisses industry calls to lift ban on single-use plastics
- Plastic straws, stirrers and cotton bud ban delayed
- Don’t buy plastics industry’s claims about plastic bags aiding coronavirus fight
- In Our Opinion: Undoing plastic bans is risky business
- Waste Reduction Policies Facing Rollbacks Amid Global Pandemic
- Bottle redemptions on hold
- Open Letter from the European Plastics Converters (EuPC)
- Pandemic deals blow to plastic bag bans, plastic reduction
- It’s come to this: Liberal San Francisco Bay Area bans reusable grocery bags
- Turkey announces new measures as virus death toll reaches 75
- In Coronavirus, Industry Sees Chance to Undo Plastic Bag Bans
- How the plastic industry exploited anxiety about COVID-19 to attack reusable bags
- Plastics industry goes after bag bans during pandemic
- PLASTICS’ letter to US Department of Health and Human Services
- Plastics Had Been Falling Out of Favor. Then Came the Virus
- The Rethink Plastic alliance and Covid-19
- Video The Shift: Disaster Capitalism, Plastics Edition