Healthcare waste—a serious problem for global health

E Janik-Karpinska, R Brancaleoni, M Niemcewicz… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Healthcare waste (HCW) is generated in different healthcare facilities (HCFs), such as
hospitals, laboratories, veterinary clinics, research centres and nursing homes. It has been …

Dioxins emissions from bio-medical waste incineration: a systematic review on emission factors, inventories, trends and health risk studies

SV Ajay, KP Prathish - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has aggravated the biomedical waste generation all over the world and the
concern for its safe disposal is on the rise. The vast majority of healthcare systems employ …

Mapping healthcare waste management research: Past evolution, current challenges, and future perspectives towards a circular economy transition

M Ranjbari, ZS Esfandabadi, T Shevchenko… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improper healthcare waste (HCW) management poses significant risks to the environment,
human health, and socio-economic sustainability due to the infectious and hazardous nature …

Assessment of COVID-19 waste flows during the emergency state in Romania and related public health and environmental concerns

FC Mihai - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a rapid assessment method of potentially infectious waste flow related
to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Romania focusing on the emergency …

Heavy metal pollution in the soil around municipal solid waste incinerators and its health risks in China

J Wei, H Li, J Liu - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective In China, municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration (MSWI) has been
increasing in recent years. However, little is known about how the operation of incinerators …

Physical and chemical properties, pretreatment, and recycling of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash and bottom ash for highway engineering: A literature review

Y Lu, A Tian, J Zhang, Y Tang, P Shi… - Advances in Civil …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) has been widely used due to its benefits in
reducing waste and recovering energy. However, MSWI fly ash and bottom ash are …

Kondisi Pengelolaan Limbah B3 Industri Di Indonesia Dan Potensi Dampaknya: Studi Literatur

A Nursabrina, T Joko, O Septiani - Jurnal Riset Kesehatan Poltekkes …, 2021 - juriskes.com
Industrialization is an alternative development model needed by a country to spur economic
processes. Apart from causing the economy to accelerate, the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in food and human dietary intake: An update of the scientific literature

N González, JL Domingo - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
It is well established that for non-occupationally exposed populations, dietary intake is, by
far, the main way of human exposure to polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and …

Assessing Global Waste Management: Alternatives to Landfilling in Different Waste Streams—A Scoping Review

N Karimi - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This scoping review examines global strategies and enterprises for sustainable solid waste
management, with a focus on alternative landfilling approaches. The study collected and …

Air pollutant emission inventory of waste-to-energy plants in China and prediction by the artificial neural network approach

W Ma, J Cui, B Abdoulaye, Y Wang, H Du… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The waste-to-energy (WTE) plant has been deployed in 205 cities in China. However, it
always faces public resistance to be built because of the great concerns on flue gas …