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Medical waste: Current challenges and future opportunities for sustainable management
Critical reviews in environmental science and technology, 2021 Countries worldwide are struggling to develop strategies and infrastructure for appropriate disposal of the increasing medical waste generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Narendra Singh +2 more
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Wasted medications, wasted resource [PDF]
Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada, 2013 In Canada, almost anything can be recycled; however, medication is not currently recycled in community practice. For many years, US hospitals in some states have taken unused medication and redispensed it without an issue.1 In 2010, Canadians spent $31.1 billion on drugs.2 It is estimated that 3% to 7% of medications intended for patients goes unused ...
Jeffry, Tchen +2 more
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Modernizing Medical Waste Management: Unleashing the Power of the Internet of Things (IoT)
Sustainability, 2023 The rapid technological advancements of modern times have brought about the need for an innovative and contemporary approach to medical waste management procedures.
Nurul Hamizah Mohamed +2 more
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Sustainability, 2023 Bio-medical waste management is critical for ensuring public health and environmental sustainability. However, due to the inherent ambiguities and complexities involved with waste characteristics and disposal techniques, measuring the efficiency of bio ...
Khalil al-Sulbi +7 more
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A Blockchain-Based Solution for Mitigating Overproduction and Underconsumption of Medical Supplies
IEEE Access, 2022 Billions of dollars lost has been recorded over the past decade due to the overproduction and underconsumption of medical supplies. The overproducation and underconsumption are usually due to the lack of accountability, transparency, traceability, audit,
Diana Hawashin +4 more
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Current State, Development and Future Directions of Medical Waste Valorization
Energies, 2023 Elevated medical waste has urged the improvement of sustainable medical waste treatments. A bibliometric analysis is initially conducted to investigate scientific development of medical waste management to pinpoint the publication trends, influential ...
Y. Chu +4 more
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Hospital waste incinerator ash: characteristics, treatment techniques, and applications (A review)
Journal of Water and Health, 2023 The amount of medical waste generated has increased enormously since the COVID-19 outbreak. An incineration process is the main method that is usually used to treat this waste, causing an increase in both medical waste bottom ash (MWBA) and medical waste
Nuseibah Abd Alhameed El-Amaireh +2 more
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Selection of the optimal medical waste incineration facility location: A challenge of medical waste risk management [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 Background/Aim. Among the other challenges of the 21st century, medical waste (MW) has become an arising problem for both the environment and people because of its increasing amount, variety, and complexity.
Stanojević Kristina +5 more
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Ranking of hospital waste management criteria using multi-criteria decision-making approach in selected hospitals [PDF]
فصلنامه ابن سینا, 2023 Background and aims: Improper management of hospital waste has become a major concern in many developing countries. The present study was conducted with the aim of ranking the health-environmental and management criteria of hospital waste using the multi-
Mohammad Hassan Golrayhan +3 more
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A deep learning approach for medical waste classification
Scientific Reports, 2022 As the demand for health grows, the increase in medical waste generation is gradually outstripping the load. In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach for identification and classification of medical waste.
Haiying Zhou +15 more
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