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1.2 February–March 2020: Clusters in Northern Italy. 1.3 March 2020: Spread to other regions. ... The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Italy was the first country to implement a national quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 29 ] Conte announced on 11 March that the lockdown would be tightened, with all commercial and retail businesses except those providing essential services, like grocery stores, food stores, and pharmacies, closed down. [ 30 ]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus. [ 1 ]
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [1] [2] [3] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [4] [5] [6] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.
Bergamo—a city close to Milan in Italy’s northern Lombardy region—was home to the West’s first significant, and potentially most deadly, COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020.
Plastic bag ban including bags used for newspapers and flyers [378] Montreal: 23 August 2016: 1 January 2018: Ban of plastic bags including biodegradable. Reusable bags must be at least 50 microns thickness. [379] Saskatchewan: Regina: 31 May 2020 1 February 2022 Single-use plastic shopping bag ban effective following COVID-19 pandemic. [380 ...
Wastewater management, recycling facilities, and landfills: plastic goods undergo environmental (weathering) and mechanical degradation and wastewater management [64] [65] [66] and recycling facilities [67] [68] and landfills [69] serve as a reservoirs of particulates workers may potentially be exposed to.
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