Solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: Recovery techniques and responses

E Singh, A Kumar, R Mishra, S Kumar - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Solid waste management (SWM) is a service of public health that is often understated in its
significance. If a public health emergency like the COVID-19 outbreak exacerbates the SWM …

UVC-based photoinactivation as an efficient tool to control the transmission of coronaviruses

SK Bhardwaj, H Singh, A Deep, M Khatri… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic made us re-realize the importance of environmental
disinfection and sanitation in indoor areas, hospitals, and clinical rooms. UVC irradiation of …

Increased plastic pollution due to COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and recommendations

AL Patrício Silva, JC Prata, TR Walker, AC Duarte… - 2020 - digital.csic.es
Plastics have become a severe transboundary threat to natural ecosystems and human
health, with studies predicting a twofold increase in the number of plastic debris (including …

Face masks against COVID-19: Standards, efficacy, testing and decontamination methods

JTJ Ju, LN Boisvert, YY Zuo - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for
the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has caused a global pandemic on a scale …

Environmental survival of SARS-CoV-2–a solid waste perspective

M Iyer, S Tiwari, K Renu, MY Pasha, S Pandit… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of COVID-19 has kept the whole world on their toes. Countries are maximizing
their efforts to combat the virus and to minimize the infection. Since infectious …

Polymer materials for respiratory protection: processing, end use, and testing methods

I Armentano, M Barbanera, E Carota… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 occurrence is causing a global request for effective measures aimed at
mitigating the infection spread. Facemasks have been identified as an essential device for …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of ultraviolet C radiation against different N95 respirators inoculated with SARS-CoV-2

DM Ozog, JZ Sexton, S Narla… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives There are currently no studies that have examined whether one dosage can be
uniformly applied to different respirator types to effectively decontaminate SARS-CoV-2 on …

Graphene‐based materials for fighting coronavirus disease 2019: challenges and opportunities

I Maqbool, F Rehman, F Soomro, Z Bhatti… - ChemBioEng …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is considered as serious global threat of this time …

UV-based technologies for SARS-CoV2 inactivation: Status and perspectives

N Trivellin, F Piva, D Fiorimonte, M Buffolo, C De Santi… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiologic agent of
COVID-19, which has affected the international healthcare systems since the beginning of …

Development of a highly effective low-cost vaporized hydrogen peroxide-based method for disinfection of personal protective equipment for their selective reuse …

V Saini, K Sikri, SD Batra, P Kalra, K Gautam - Gut pathogens, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required to safely work with
biological agents of bacterial (ie Mycobacterium tuberculosis) or viral origin (Ebola and …