A systematic review of recent developments in disaster waste management

Abstract

Disaster waste management received increasing attention in recent year, but there was no review updating the evolving development after the study of Brown et al. (2011a). To explore how the topics in disaster waste management evolved in recent years and to analyze whether the gaps identified by Brown et al. (2011a) are covered, 82 papers published from 2011 to 2019 were selected from the Scopus database based on the defined process and criteria, to systematically examine the disaster waste management research from nine aspects of planning, waste, waste treatment options, environment, economics, social considerations, organizational aspects, legal frameworks and funding. The results suggested that there were no obvious changes or developments in the field of disaster waste management, although a few research gaps have been addressed, such as waste separation, waste quantities, case studies of incineration and waste to energy, direct economic effects, social considerations as well as application of GIS technology. Except for the comparative studies, future directions were suggested by the gaps that persist since Brown et al. (2011a) and the new gaps that were identified in this review.

State of the art of the management of medical and biological laboratory solid wastes in Togo

“…for biomedical waste. This percentage is between those obtained by [ 24 ] in China (06.0%). The low percentage observed by the Chinese study of [ 24 ] could be explained by its quality of developed countries.…”

Management of Solid Medical Waste on One of the Covid19 Referral Hospitals in Surabaya, East Java

“…Combusting is one of the most widely used annihilation technologies, especially in several developing countries including the technology used by the Covid19 referral hospital (36). Incineration had a major effect on positive impacts, namely on improving the performance of disaster waste management, especially in situations and time constraints (37). Incineration showed the greatest impact on fossil fuels, changes in climate, the effect on breathing because humans will inhale the inorganic substances produced (38).…”

Cloud‐based product‐service systems platform for household solid waste classification management

“…Hannan et al [21] applied radio frequency identification (RFID) and communication technologies to a monitoring system for waste bins and vehicles. Zhang et al [22] applied smart technology to disaster waste management. Misra et al [23] proposed a new method of comprehensive sensing to automate the solid waste management process based on IoT and cloud technology.…”