Status and Challenges of COVID-19 Waste Management
Main Article Content
Abstract
Bio-medical waste is constantly a source of worry owing to the risk it possess to the community's health. COVID-19 is an extremely infectious in nature and deadly virus. A huge amount of biomedical waste is produced to fight against such situations. Traditional waste management solutions cannot cope with covid waste since the rate of waste creation is quite high and infectious. Safety equipment like PPE kits, testing kits, and other medical waste is generated while the handling of COVID-19 patients. The long survival of the corona virus on diverse surfaces is a significant source of its spread. Such infectious waste has become a major environmental and social issue that must be handled. This work provides light on several aspects of the COVID-19 waste volume status and issues associated with COVID-19 waste management. Better waste management can decrease environmental exposure time, transportation danger, and so on. Some recommendations like a small local COVID-19 waste treatment plant may help in reducing the danger of corona virus transmission and mobility, as well as limiting its risks of the hazardous component.
Downloads
Metrics
Article Details
Licensing
TURCOMAT publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This licensing allows for any use of the work, provided the original author(s) and source are credited, thereby facilitating the free exchange and use of research for the advancement of knowledge.
Detailed Licensing Terms
Attribution (BY): Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses them or their use.
No Additional Restrictions: Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
