Table 7.

Single-use plastic and PPE waste during the lockdown period in Bangladesh (Haque et al., 2021).

Items	Number of amounts used during 30 days lockdown (nos)	Total waste produced (ton)	Estimated daily waste production rate (ton/day)	Waste produced in 3 months (ton)
Hand Sanitizer bottles	49 million	900.0	30.0	2700.0
Single use surgical face masks	455 million	1592	53.07	4776.30
Polyethylene (PE) bags	1449 million	5796	193.20	17,388.0
Non-infectious plastic waste from healthcare units	–	251.10	8.37	753.30
Polyethylene made hand gloves	1216 million	3039	101.30	9117.0