危机对废弃物管理政策和做法的影响--19 年科维德大流行期间生物医疗废弃物管理的叙述性回顾

John D Costa, Harshad Patel, Vincent Braganza, Hiteshkumar A Solanki
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作为自 1929 年黑死病以来人类面临的最大威胁,COVID-19 大流行病被认为是本世纪最严重、最可怕的世界性健康灾难。这种大流行病极大地改变了人口结构,普通的经济活动已经停止,无法挽救人类的生命。虽然有限的经济有助于营造环保氛围,但也带来了生物医学废物的严重问题。本综述文件介绍了因 COVID-19 大流行而从医院、诊所、生产单位、工作场所、家庭和实验室产生的生物医疗废物(BMW)降解的各种步骤、举措、方法和技术。叙述性审查的目的是确定危机如何影响现有的生物医疗废物管理实践和对总体政策框架的遵守,以及在此基础上发起的变革。我们回顾了大流行期间用于妥善处理生物医疗废物的一系列法定规范、技术和方法。当今世界面临的一个巨大挑战是如何妥善处理这些废物,同时又不在周围和更大的环境中造成感染。审查结果表明,在大流行前后,BMW 的管理方式发生了明显的变化,围绕这些管理方式的法规和政策框架也发生了重大变化。研究还提出了这些变化背后的原因,并建议了相同的方向和背景,以帮助为另一场危机做好准备,同时减少 BMW 对环境的影响。
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Impact of a Crisis on Waste Management Policy Adherence And Practices - A Narrative Review of Bio-Medical Waste Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the greatest threat to humanity since the Black Death of 1929, the COVID-19 pandemic is believed to be the worst and most terrible world-wide health catastrophe of the century. This pandemic has significantly altered the demographics, and ordinary economic activity ceased to save human lives. Although the limited economy has helped to create an environmentally friendly atmosphere, it additionally brought about a significant problem with biomedical waste. This review paper covers the various steps, initiatives, methods, and techniques to degrade biomedical waste(BMW) from hospitals, clinics, production units, workplaces, homes, and laboratories due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the narrative review was to identify how the crisis impacted existing practices of biomedical waste management and adherence to overarching policy frameworks, along with the changes that were initiated in the same. We have reviewed a range of statutory norms, techniques, and methods used to dispose of biomedical waste appropriately during the pandemic. A big challenge to the world today is to dispose of them properly, without promulgating the infection in the immediate and larger environment. The results of the review show that there were definitive changes in the way BMW management practices were followed before and after the pandemic, along with overarching changes in statutory regulations and policy frameworks around these practices. The study also puts forth reasoning behind these changes and recommends a direction and context for the same in order to help prepare for another crisis while reducing the environmental impact of BMW.
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