Medical waste treatment technologies for energy, fuels, and materials production: A review

G Giakoumakis, D Politi, D Sidiras - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The importance of medical waste management has grown during the COVID-19 pandemic
because of the increase in medical waste quantity and the significant dangers of these …

Review of current healthcare waste management methods and their effect on global health

C Kenny, A Priyadarshini - Healthcare, 2021 - mdpi.com
Healthcare is a rapidly growing industry as medical treatments become more sophisticated,
more in demand due to increasing incidence of chronic disease and more widely available …

A novel EDAS approach on intuitionistic fuzzy set for assessment of health-care waste disposal technology using new parametric divergence measures

AR Mishra, A Mardani, P Rani, EK Zavadskas - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, health-care waste management is a challenging issue for both the public and
government sectors because it contains infectious, radioactive, or hazardous waste …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on medical waste management in Lebanon

A Maalouf, H Maalouf - Waste Management & Research, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Worldwide, there is a growing concern about the negative effects of infectious medical waste
produced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the contamination risks associated with waste …

Healthcare waste generation worldwide and its dependence on socio-economic and environmental factors

M Minoglou, S Gerassimidou, D Komilis - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper examines the dependence of the healthcare waste (HCW) generation rate on
several social-economic and environmental parameters. Correlations were calculated …

Identifying and predicting healthcare waste management costs for an optimal sustainable management system: evidence from the Greek public sector

A Sepetis, PN Zaza, F Rizos, PG Bagos - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The healthcare sector is an ever-growing industry which produces a vast amount of waste
each year, and it is crucial for healthcare systems to have an effective and sustainable …

Identifying Environmental Impact Factors for Sustainable Healthcare: A Scoping Review

M Sijm-Eeken, M Jaspers, L Peute - International journal of environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The healthcare industry has a substantial impact on the environment through its use of
resources, waste generation and pollution. To manage and reduce its impact, it is essential …

Health-care waste treatment technology selection using the interval 2-tuple induced TOPSIS method

C Lu, JX You, HC Liu, P Li - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Health-care waste (HCW) management is a major challenge for municipalities, particularly
in the cities of developing nations. Selecting the best treatment technology for HCW can be …

A novel assessment of healthcare waste disposal methods: intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy MULTIMOORA decision making approach

S Geetha, S Narayanamoorthy, D Kang… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Waste produced from medical facilities systems incorporates a blend of dangerous waste
which can posture dangers to humans and ecological receptors. Lacking administration of …

A review on medical waste treatment in COVID-19 pandemics: technologies, managements and future strategies

RC Sanito, DR Mujiyanti, SJ You… - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 few years ago, the increasing of the number of medical
waste has become a huge issue because of their harmful impact to environment. A major …