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Current Situation and Future Prospects for Plastic Waste in Maysan Governorate: Effects and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Perils‏ ‏of plastic waste (PW) from polymers (ex: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density ‎polyethylene (LDPE), polyvinyl chloride ‎‎(PVC), nylon, polystyrene (PS), etc.) ‎, the mechanism of its spread in ‎general and all of these types that are included ‎in our daily life system as a product expelled ‎continuously and/or frequently are 21st century crisis as reported from United Nations in 2019, and especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. PW is a very serious issue that has negative and harmful effects on the ecosystem, beside; health and the ‎economy through direct proportionality with the rate of increase in the state population, moreover, weak ‎environmental awareness and Energy International Administration (EIA) towards this dangerous issue. ‎ The aim of the current survey study is to shed light on the importance of plastics in our daily life needs for food packaging, single-use personal protective equipment's, laboratory tests, etc... PW problems by knowing the chemical composition, components, uses, and harms, as well as knowing the possibility of benefiting from these wastes within the solid waste management system (MSW / Municipal). By providing some suggestions that helps reduce the harm of this waste either recycling or disposal. This study will also include approximate theoretical equations to calculate the percentage of PW in particular at Maysan governorate, Iraq; because we haven't any physical mechanism at the operational level that deals with waste sorting, especially PW; as these statistics generally depend on the official information published by the competent authority about the total amount of waste presented at the governorate level.‎

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.79255.3895

Keywords

Plastic Waste (PW), COVID-19 pandemic‎, Recycling‎ and Statistics

Authors

First Name

Hind

Last Name

Saleh

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-

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Misan, Maysan, Iraq

Email

hind1980@uomisan.edu.iq

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-9430-7462

First Name

MURTADA

Last Name

AL-KAHLIDI

MiddleName

M. A.

Affiliation

Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Misan, Misan, Iraq‎

Email

enana@uomisan.edu.iq

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hamzah

Last Name

Abulridha

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Directorate of Maysan Environment, Ministry of Environment, Iraq

Email

hamzaha.abulridha@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shaima

Last Name

Banoon

MiddleName

R.

Affiliation

Department‎ of Biology, Coleege of Science, University of Misan, Misan, Iraq‎

Email

shimarb@uomisan.edu.iq

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-9133-2259

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdelzaher

MiddleName

Abuelseoud

Affiliation

Environmental Science and Industrial Development Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

Email

m.abuelseoud@psas.bsu.edu.eg

City

ElMinia

Orcid

0000-0001-5180-7283

Volume

64

Article Issue

8

Related Issue

26586

Issue Date

2021-08-01

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2021-06-05

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2021-08-01

Page Start

4,449

Page End

4,460

Print ISSN

0449-2285

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2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_182837.html

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=182837

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46

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Original Article

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Current Situation and Future Prospects for Plastic Waste in Maysan Governorate: Effects and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Created At

22 Jan 2023