A review of the COVID-19 pandemic's effects and challenges on worldwide waste management for sustainable development.

Through an extensive literature review, this study determines the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts and challenges on worldwide waste management for sustainable development. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has adversely and harshly affected almost every element of global social, economic, and environmental systems over the past few years. The widespread use of disposables and personal protective equipment (PPE) for infested and healthy people and frontier employees caused unprecedented miscellaneous garbage. Increasing waste volumes caused a problem for standard waste disposal facilities, which harmed the global waste management sector and resulted in a vital global scenario. Since waste management in developing countries is still in its infancy, the pandemic has broken many regions of the globe. The complete assessment gives a synopsis of COVID-19's impacts and difficulties on waste management. This study reviews the COVID-19 pandemic's effects and challenges on worldwide waste management for sustainable development to fill this gap. This analysis refers to the quantitative research method used to analyze bibliographic content. It provides a general overview of a research topic that may be further broken down into publications, authors, and journals. With a few notable exceptions, the results obtained align with accepted wisdom. In this study, we used the VOSviewer software. This study showed that most countries, essential to managing the increased waste, have seen an increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, a complete bibliometric examination of the issue still needs to be completed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]