The present work aims to show the research carried out in online environments, showing relevant information for the construction of scientifi c knowledge. The virtual environment is improving and progressing every day to provide a more facilitative resource mode for our society. Having Ethnography as a methodological support, using Youtube as a locus of data production. Taking into account the various social networks that we currently have, the video platform was selected as a place to search for the empirical material of the research. related to shares, likes, comments and views. In order to be able to track the most relevant information about events related to the negative impacts of the pandemic on the environment. made with the broadcasting of news and information regarding the knowledge of these impacts, to the audience that most frequents the video platform. As we know, the situation started in China and spread worldwide. And with that, one of the means used to suppress the advance of the virus as a form of combat attributed to society was isolation and social distance. What can be seen is that the pandemic had a very impacting factor on our environment, such as isolation and social distance, caused by restrictions due to the pandemic, had a signifi cant increase in hospital waste worldwide, as well as plastics discarded in domestic environments.