Biomedical Waste Management in COVID-19 Era: A Global Scenario covers the STI approach for addressing sustainable management of biomedical waste from highly contagious pandemic situations in the future. In addition, it discusses the challenges of biomedical waste management produced during the pandemic along with environmental sustainability and economic burden. This book addresses the challenges, opportunities, and future perspectives related to the pandemic situation and biomedical waste management in consequences to the environment and health. It provides a collection of opinions, viewpoints, inferences, and possible solutions based on case studies carried out by various experts across the globe.
1. Introduction - p. xxv 2. Chapter 1 Advancing biomedical waste management: Innovations, ethics, and future trends in a post-COVID era - p. 1 3. Chapter 2 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on biomedical waste generation and management - p. 39 4. Chapter 3 Current trend of biomedical waste generation in pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic - p. 57 5. Chapter 4 Waste segregation techniques - p. 73 6. Chapter 5 Biomedical waste management in the post-COVID era: Global and South Asian perspectives - p. 89 7. Chapter 6 Recent advances in healthcare waste treatment: Innovations, challenges, and environmental sustainability - p. 123 8. Chapter 7 Global solutions: A comparative study of regional best practices - p. 137 9. Chapter 8 Biomedical hazards: Uncovering the environmental and public health threats of biomedical waste - p. 161 10. Chapter 9 Future frontiers in biomedical waste management: Emerging technologies and sustainable strategies for a postpandemic world - p. 185 11. Chapter 10 The relational governance of household biomedical waste produced in South African informal settlements in a post-COVID era - p. 207 12. Glossary - p. 225 13. Index - p. 227
Biomedical Waste Management in COVID-19 Era: A Global Scenario covers the STI approach for addressing sustainable management of biomedical waste from highly contagious pandemic situations in the future. In addition, it discusses the challenges of biomedical waste management produced during the pandemic along with environmental sustainability and economic burden. This book addresses the challenges, opportunities, and future perspectives related to the pandemic situation and biomedical waste management in consequences to the environment and health. It provides a collection of opinions, viewpoints, inferences, and possible solutions based on case studies carried out by various experts across the globe.
1. Introduction - p. xxv 2. Chapter 1 Advancing biomedical waste management: Innovations, ethics, and future trends in a post-COVID era - p. 1 3. Chapter 2 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on biomedical waste generation and management - p. 39 4. Chapter 3 Current trend of biomedical waste generation in pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic - p. 57 5. Chapter 4 Waste segregation techniques - p. 73 6. Chapter 5 Biomedical waste management in the post-COVID era: Global and South Asian perspectives - p. 89 7. Chapter 6 Recent advances in healthcare waste treatment: Innovations, challenges, and environmental sustainability - p. 123 8. Chapter 7 Global solutions: A comparative study of regional best practices - p. 137 9. Chapter 8 Biomedical hazards: Uncovering the environmental and public health threats of biomedical waste - p. 161 10. Chapter 9 Future frontiers in biomedical waste management: Emerging technologies and sustainable strategies for a postpandemic world - p. 185 11. Chapter 10 The relational governance of household biomedical waste produced in South African informal settlements in a post-COVID era - p. 207 12. Glossary - p. 225 13. Index - p. 227
