The environmental impact of medical waste: challenges and legal solutionsdoi:10.47577/tssj.v52i1.10315Braoveanu, FloricaTechnium Social Sciences Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE TPJ4M. HEALTH CARE WASTE Waste generated by health care activities includes a broad range of materials: used needles. Environmental impact of medications Essential idea The synthesis, isolation, and administration of medications can have an effect on the environment...
Medical wasteMunicipal wasteWorld is generating more and more waste as the population of people in the world Hospitals are increasing day by day. Health care activities are a means of protecting health, curing patients and saving lives. Waste generating from hospitals, health centers and medicals ...
COVID-19 pandemic Life cycle assessment Medical waste Sustainable development Weighting 1. Introduction Coronavirus disease of the pandemic in 2019 (COVID-19), a contagious disease with human to human transmission, has had an extraordinary dangerous impact on universal healthcare systems, with a signi...
This article highlights the impact of lockdown on the environment and also discusses the pre and post lockdown air pollution scenario across major cities of the world. Several aspect of environment such as air, water, noise pollution and waste management during, pre and post lockdown scenario ...
Limiting Our Impact on Nature Our ambition for nature focuses on optimizing and turning waste into resources, thinking of water as a valuable local resource, and preserving biodiversity through global and local actions. Our circular economy ambition places waste reduction and circularity at its heart....
This study deals with the pollution impact of biomedical waste (BMW) generation due to the COVID-19 pandemic at both the global and national levels. This d
Energy recovery is the key to reduce the overall environmental and economic impact. Abstract The environmental and economic impacts of threemedical wastedisposal scenarios (i.e.,pyrolysis,steam sterilization, and chemical disinfection) were quantified via a cost-coupledlife cycle assessmentto quantify the...
2.2 Environmental Impact Assessments Environmental impact is one of the key parameter for evaluating sustainability in not only world societies but also chemical process industries. In the environmental analyses, we can evaluate energy consumption, waste generation, global warming effect, and environmental ...
Other means to reduce the environmental impact of the food system (for example, technological advances, closing yield gaps, reducing food waste) will not be enough without major dietary change7,8. The environmental impact of animal-based foods is generally higher than for plant-based foods ...