Highlights
A novel healthcare waste location-routing problem is developed with a new perspective in healthcare logistics networks.
A stochastic essence for the emission of contamination is considered.
The management of medical wastes in Coronavirus Disease 2019 is focused.
A real case study is modeled to manage the logistics of infectious and non-infectious healthcare wastes.
A Multi-Objective Water-Flow like Algorithm with novel operators is developed and compared with the others.
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