Table 1.

Consumption/ usage/ demand of plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic in some countries.

Country	Consumption/usage/demand of plastic-based PPE during COVID-19	References
Canada	Number of SUP PPEs used from June 2020 to December 2020: •Gloves: 3.88 million per day •Mask: 1.76 million per day •Disposable gowns: 26.6 million	(Statics Canada, 2021)
USA	•The industrial giant, 3M alone would be supplying 1 billion N95 masks in 2021 •Demand for N95 masks increased substantially from 50 million per year to about 140 million during a 90-day peak-use period in 2020 •U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimated the demand of medical gloves to be 8.7 billion per month in 2020 •The Freedonia Group estimated an increase of around 312% demand of face shields during COVID-19	(Stankiewicz, 2020)(LOPEZ, 2021)(Laura Strickler, Stephanie Gosk, 2020)(Parashar and Hait, 2021)
UK	•SUP medical kits usage ranged between 7.5-12 million per day in 2020 •National Health Service Hospital (NHS) supplied more than 10 million single-use plastic PPE each day in the month of August, 2020 •Number of PPE items supplied to England healthcare services from February to June 2020: Facemasks: 421.8 million Gloves: 1.3 billion Aprons: 353 million Eye protectors: 42.4 million	(Parashar and Hait, 2021)(Way, 2020)(Way, 2020)
Brazil	•Daily use and disposal of more than 85 million facemasks	(Urban and Nakada, 2021)
China	•In February 2020, 116 million of single-use face mask got produced per day •Face mask production increased by 450% from January to February 2020 •Daily usage of facemasks was measured as 900 million pieces per day during the lockdown period.	(Parashar and Hait, 2021; Wang et al., 2020)(Silva et al., 2020)(Ragazzi et al., 2020)
India	•2.5 million PPEs were required per day in 2020 •The Ministry has supplied 4.6 million N95 mask in June 2020 •20 million protective gowns were expected to be supplied by the end of June 2020	(Parashar and Hait, 2021) (Bhowmick, 2020)(Pandit, 2020)
Italy	•Daily usage of facemasks was measured as 40 million pieces per day during the lockdown period.	(Ragazzi et al., 2020)
Thailand	•Around 2 million facemasks were used per day nationwide.	(Simachaya, 2020)
Bangladesh	•In the first month of COVID-19 pandemic, about 455 million surgical masks and 1216 million gloves have been used.	(ESDO, 2020)
France	•In every week, around 40 million surgical masks were used during the pandemic.	(Parashar and Hait, 2021)
Japan	•Everyday around 600 million facemasks were produced till April 2020.	(Parashar and Hait, 2021)