Electronic waste pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic
Résumé
How waste will be managed in the future? Will humans be able to design zero-waste products and systems, or will there
be a continuous urban mining to recycle waste in the circular economy? Here, new insights have been recently provided by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has somehow accelerated society evolution and thus provided a glimpse at what might happen in the future. In particular, lockdowns have suddenly amplified working from home with computers, increased the amount plastic and paper packages and decreased waste transportations. Here, we discuss issues of electronic waste (E-waste) pollution, toxicity and urban mining.