The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management
Waste management has been a great problem globally for at least five decades. Some of the developed countries could initiated certain processes to benefit from the waste. In this way, countries could both got rid of waste and they could exploit from it and used waste in different ways such as heatin...
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| description | Waste management has been a great problem globally for at least five decades. Some of the developed countries could initiated certain processes to benefit from the waste. In this way, countries could both got rid of waste and they could exploit from it and used waste in different ways such as heating, recycling, etc. The situation became even worse during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered global waste generation dynamics and thus became one of the most important issue for all countries for now and for future. Actually, healthcare waste is all the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities, as well as waste from minor or scattered sources. However, during the pandemic, masks, increased amounts of contaminated waste including gloves, other protective equipment, and along with non-contaminated materials, many types of additional medical and hazardous waste are produced. These contaminated wastes not only dirts the environment, but also may cause the pandemic spread. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of current waste management system to deal with the increased dependence on plastic could aggravate its mismanagement and leakage into the environment, thus triggering a new environmental crisis. Therefore, this study will highlights the possible effects of COVID-19 on the waste management and environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-096c15d8c01749bfba77f6f60f408eba2023-12-02T20:43:59ZengDuzce UniversityDüzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi1307-671X2021-03-0123Special Issue272910.18678/dtfd.89644597The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Managementİlhan Öztürk0CAG UNIVERSITYWaste management has been a great problem globally for at least five decades. Some of the developed countries could initiated certain processes to benefit from the waste. In this way, countries could both got rid of waste and they could exploit from it and used waste in different ways such as heating, recycling, etc. The situation became even worse during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered global waste generation dynamics and thus became one of the most important issue for all countries for now and for future. Actually, healthcare waste is all the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities, as well as waste from minor or scattered sources. However, during the pandemic, masks, increased amounts of contaminated waste including gloves, other protective equipment, and along with non-contaminated materials, many types of additional medical and hazardous waste are produced. These contaminated wastes not only dirts the environment, but also may cause the pandemic spread. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of current waste management system to deal with the increased dependence on plastic could aggravate its mismanagement and leakage into the environment, thus triggering a new environmental crisis. Therefore, this study will highlights the possible effects of COVID-19 on the waste management and environment.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/dtfd/issue/60535/896445covid-19atık yönetimitıbbi atıklarhava kirliliğiçevrecovid-19waste managementhealthcare wasteair pollutionenvironment |
| spellingShingle | İlhan Öztürk The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management Düzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi covid-19 atık yönetimi tıbbi atıklar hava kirliliği çevre covid-19 waste management healthcare waste air pollution environment |
| title | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management |
| title_full | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management |
| title_fullStr | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management |
| title_short | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Waste Management |
| title_sort | covid 19 pandemic and waste management |
| topic | covid-19 atık yönetimi tıbbi atıklar hava kirliliği çevre covid-19 waste management healthcare waste air pollution environment |
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