Without doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting human lives in many ways and is highlighting the interrelations between our environmental and societal systems. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus across society lead to a decline of economic growth, restrictions of people’s mobility, and a further need of digitisation and confinement in homes.
“The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on E-waste in the First Three Quarters of 2020,” is a new report published by the United Nations University (UNU) Sustainable Cycles programme (SCYCLE), Bonn, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Under a partnership with UNEP, the report analyses the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on E-waste by comparing the trade statistics against a “business as usual” scenario, based on monthly data of 2018 and 2019 which has been corrected for seasonal fluctuations.
