Disinfection technology and strategies for COVID-19 hospital and bio-medical waste management.
Sci Total Environ
; 749: 141652, 2020 Dec 20.
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ABSTRACT
The isolation wards, institutional quarantine centers, and home quarantine are generating a huge amount of bio-medical waste (BMW) worldwide since the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). The personal protective equipment, testing kits, surgical facemasks, and nitrile gloves are the major contributors to waste volume. Discharge of a new category of BMW (COVID-waste) is of great global concern to public health and environmental sustainability if handled inappropriately. It may cause exponential spreading of this fatal disease as waste acts as a vector for SARS-CoV-2, which survives up to 7 days on COVID-waste (like facemasks). Proper disposal of COVID-waste is therefore immediately requires to lower the threat of pandemic spread and for sustainable management of the environmental hazards. Henceforth, in the present article, disinfection technologies for handling COVID-waste from its separate collection to various physical and chemical treatment steps have been reviewed. Furthermore, policy briefs on the global initiatives for COVID-waste management including the applications of different disinfection techniques have also been discussed with some potential examples effectively applied to reduce both health and environmental risks. This article can be of great significance to the strategy development for preventing/controlling the pandemic of similar episodes in the future.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Administración de Residuos
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COVID-19
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Residuos Sanitarios
Tipo de estudio:
Policy_brief
Aspecto:
Implementation_research
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Sci Total Environ
Año:
2020
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Article