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Face mask and medical waste disposal during the novel COVID-19 pandemic in Asia [PDF]
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2020 The origin of the novel human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and its potential for harm increased face mask and medical waste in the environment, thereby necessitating the urgent prevention and control of the pandemic.
Sarawut Sangkham
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Applied Sciences, 2023 In order to build a more comprehensive emergency disposal and transportation network system for medical waste, it is necessary to consider various uncertain factors and data characteristics.
Fei Zhao +4 more
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HeliyonThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in essential medical supplies usage, leading to a notable increase in medical waste generation. Consequently, extensive research has focused on sustainable disposal methods to handle used medical equipment safely.
Ahmet Turan Demir, Sarbast Moslem
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Reducing regulated medical waste: A roadmap for process improvement [PDF]
The Journal of Climate Change and HealthIntroduction: The United States is a major producer of medical waste. While the recommended standard percentage of Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) in health care facilities is 15% or less of overall waste, up to 70% of healthcare waste is disposed of as ...
Clarissa A. Niino +3 more
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Risk Management for Whole-Process Safe Disposal of Medical Waste: Progress and Challenges
Risk Management and Healthcare PolicyTing Yang,1,2 Yanan Du,1 Mingzhen Sun,1 Jingjing Meng,1 Yiyi Li1 1School of Health Services Management, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, 230032, People’s Republic of China; 2Intelligent Interconnected Systems Laboratory of Anhui Province (Hefei ...
Yang T, Du Y, Sun M, Meng J, Li Y
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Medical Waste Disposal Method Selection Based on a Hierarchical Decision Model with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relations. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2016 Qian W, Wang ZJ, Li KW.
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Microbes are the Earth life forms that have the highest degree of adaptability to survive, live, or even proliferate in very hostile environments. It is even stated that microbes can cope with any extreme physico-chemical condition and are, therefore ...
Hugo Moors +5 more
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Emergency disposal and management of medical waste duringthe COVID-19 outbreak in China [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 began to explode on a large scale around the world, with medical and health institutions around the world are facing great pressure.
Liu Liyuan +3 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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Environmental Challenges, 2023 The active hostilities in Ukraine have not only changed the lives of the pre-war population of nearly 44 million people, but have also had a global environmental impact that negatively impacts the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Walter Leal Filho +3 more
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