Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Study of Waste Management in Indonesia in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Dave Mangindaan, Azmier Adib, Harvey Febrianta and Donald John Calvien Hutabarat
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Dave Mangindaan: Profesional Engineer Program Department, Faculty of Engineering, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta 11480, Indonesia
Azmier Adib: Independent Researcher, West Jakarta 11510, Indonesia
Harvey Febrianta: Food Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta 11480, Indonesia
Donald John Calvien Hutabarat: Food Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta 11480, Indonesia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: It is globally known that the COVID-19 pandemic affected all aspects of society, including issues pertaining to health, economic, social, and environmental issues. The pandemic has already continued for two years and counting, and we are now advised to live coexisting with COVID-19 in the new normal era. During this new normal era, especially in Indonesia, many medical wastes (face masks, gloves, goggles, etc.) and other type of wastes are being generated due to COVID-19. However, the waste profile (waste management or waste handling) and the specific waste distribution in Indonesia during COVID-19 is not clearly understood. Therefore, in this study we perform a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of studies published during COVID-19 to describe the aforementioned issues regarding waste management in Indonesia by extracting data from Scopus as a leading indexing service for peer-reviewed publications. From more than 230,000 titles in Scopus regarding COVID-19, there are only 24 titles related to waste management in Indonesia during COVID-19. From the bibliometric analysis of the extracted data from Scopus, it can be observed that there are four clusters of interest, namely (1) medical waste and its processing, (2) COVID-19-related issues, (3) Indonesia and waste management, and (4) solid waste. The study of these issues is essential to obtain not only a clean environment, but also a sustainable future for an Indonesia that is free from COVID-19 and other related diseases in the future. Moreover, the bibliometric analysis also uncovers the research and publication gap for the topic of waste management in Indonesia in the COVID-19 pandemic era.

Keywords: COVID-19; waste management; bibliometric; Scopus; environment; medical waste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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