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Disinfection technology and strategies for COVID-19 hospital and bio-medical waste management
Science of the Total Environment Số , năm 2020 (Tập 749, trang -)
ISSN: 489697
ISSN: 489697
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141652
Tài liệu thuộc danh mục: ISI, Scopus
Article
English
Từ khóa: Diseases; Disinfection; Environmental management; Health risks; Protective clothing; Surgical equipment; Sustainable development; Waste treatment; Chemical treatments; Environmental hazards; Environmental risks; Environmental sustainability; Fatal disease; Personal protective equipment; Strategy development; Sustainable management; Waste disposal; hydrogen peroxide; COVID-19; disease control; disinfection; sustainable development; viral disease; waste treatment; Article; coronavirus disease 2019; disinfection; environmental sustainability; health hazard; heat treatment; hospital waste; human; incineration; infection control; infection prevention; materials handling; microwave irradiation; pandemic; patient isolation; priority journal; pyrolysis; quarantine; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; technology; virus transmission; waste disposal; waste management; Coronavirus; SARS coronavirus
Tóm tắt tiếng anh
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. � 2020 Elsevier B.V.
