Exposure Risk Assessment of the Municipal Waste Collection Activities during Covid-19 Pandemic

Salvaraji, Loganathan; Jeffree, Mohammad Saffree; Avoi, Richard; Atil, Azman; Akhir, Hazelina Mohd; Shamsudin, Shamsul Bahari; Lukman, Khamisah Awang

doi:10.4081/jphr.2020.1994

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“…Findings indicate huge demand for PPEs, particularly masks and facial shields, during the pandemic. This has created enormous waste from PPEs; thus, the sustainable management of PPEs and other medical waste has become a key environmental challenge [6,7,60]. Although COVID-19 has had a huge impact on overall public health in Australia, the lowering of emissions and environmental pollution from various methods of transportation and heavy industrial and manufacturing equipment brought about a reduction in pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) in the atmosphere, which is often responsible for some human diseases (inflammation and respiratory disease, hypertension, coronary heart disease, etc.)…”

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“…Prior studies of the WHO [18], Graff et al [56], Qiao [57], Scheinberg et al [58], Chen et al [59], and Salvaraji et al [60] have focused on assessing the risks of transmission associated with medical waste from COVID-19 pandemic. The inappropriate treatment of COVID-19 waste poses serious risks of transmission to the general public, particularly waste workers, healthcare workers, and patients, through exposure to infectious pathogens [56,58,59].…”

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Medical Waste from COVID-19 Pandemic—A Systematic Review of Management and Environmental Impacts in Australia

Andeobu

Wibowo

Grandhi

2022

IJERPH

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created a global medical emergency. The unforeseen occurrence of a pandemic of this magnitude has resulted in overwhelming levels of medical waste and raises questions about management and disposal practices, and environmental impacts. The amount of medical waste generated from COVID-19 since the outbreak is estimated to be 2.6 million tons/day worldwide. In Australia, heaps of single-use gowns, facemasks/face shields, aprons, gloves, goggles, sanitizers, sharps, and syringes are disposed everyday as a result of the pandemic. Moreover, the establishment of new home/hotel quarantine facilities and isolation/quarantine centres in various Australian states and territories have increased the risks of transmission among people in these facilities and the likelihoods of general waste becoming contaminated with medical waste. This warrants the need to examine management and disposal practices implemented to reduce the transmission and spread of the virus. This study reviews the various management and disposal practices adopted in Australia for dealing with medical waste from the COVID-19 pandemic and their impacts on public health and the environment. To achieve the aims of this study, prior studies from 2019–2021 from various databases are collected and analysed. The study focuses on generation of medical waste from COVID-19, management and disposal methods, current problems/challenges and environmental and public health impacts. Considering the enormous risks involved and the significance of appropriate handling and disposal of medical waste from COVID-19, this study provides insights on short and long term responses towards managing COVID-19 waste in Australia. The study contributes to Australia’s efforts against the transmission and spread of COVID-19 and provides recommendations for the development of workable and sustainable strategies for mitigating similar pandemics in the future.

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Medical Waste from COVID-19 Pandemic—A Systematic Review of Management and Environmental Impacts in Australia

Andeobu

Wibowo

Grandhi

2022

IJERPH

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“…In that case, it will become habitual among food handlers who do not practice personal hygiene in food processing, which will negatively impact their health and the caliber of the food grown [24]. Individual behavior is considered within the framework of an organization and its leadership, along with recent research on food safety culture and a study of successful food hygiene training methods and strategies [25].…”

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Sanitation and Hygiene Implementation Training to Minimize The Spread of Covid 19 in Family and Consumer Science Students

Nurlaela¹,

Romadhoni²

2022

Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Hospitality and Tourism, IJCHT 2022, 6-7 October 2022, Singaraja, Bali

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, activities to maintain personal hygiene, and environmental hygiene, including hand washing, reduce cross-contamination but are challenging to measure. Using the principles of self-awareness theory, we developed and tested a new instrument that produces a quantitative measure of personal hygiene. This study aims to determine the public's understanding of hygiene and sanitation. The training was given using online media with 119 participants. The results showed that the instrument was 95% valid. The level of practicality in understanding the content of the material reaches the level of 87%. Meanwhile, an average score of 83.95 was obtained for evaluating learning outcomes following training, indicating increased participants' knowledge of hygiene and sanitation attitudes. Participants' responses to the training activities were considered positive and positively impacted their psychology. Suggestions for follow-up from these findings is the need for training and socialization of clean and healthy living behavior in rural areas to improve the quality of public health in their environment, the majority of whom still lack knowledge of clean-living behavior.

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“…The COVID-19 has distinct impacts on the environment as well as human health (Saadat et al, 2020; Salvaraji et al, 2020; Sarkodie and Owusu, 2020). Although the COVID-19 has been claimed to have favourable environmental effects such as reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air pollution, noise pollution and water contamination, however these effects are just temporary and are projected to rise in the future (Ragazzi et al, 2020).…”

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Examining challenges and multi-strategic approaches in waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

Ali

Parvin

2022

Waste Manag Res

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The COVID-19 pandemic has a negative impact on the environment. Waste generation and improper management during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to human health and the environment. Irregular and improper waste collection, handling, suspension of waste recycling and unsanitary disposal were all important issues in the processing and management of generated waste. This study emphasised a systematic review and content analysis to categorise all types of waste management (WM) during the COVID-19 pandemic to accomplish a well understanding of the relation between the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on WM within the literature. In this systematic review, a number of published papers on different aspects of WM during March 2020 to February 2021 were considered in order to identify major challenges in handling WM during the pandemic time and highlight multi-strategic approaches suggested. A content analysis of the 58 relevant papers was carried out by incorporating different types of WM at local as well as global scales. The present review results revealed that the COVID-19 has impacted the quantity and composition of waste, and the crisis caused by the pandemic has also altered the nature of global WM system. A comprehensive analysis on how the systems of WM were affected through the advancement of COVID-19 and what would be the healthier solutions was also highlighted in this systematic review. The results of this systematic review would be beneficial for better policymakers to holistically address potential future pandemics, if any.

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Exposure Risk Assessment of the Municipal Waste Collection Activities during Covid-19 Pandemic

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Medical Waste from COVID-19 Pandemic—A Systematic Review of Management and Environmental Impacts in Australia

Medical Waste from COVID-19 Pandemic—A Systematic Review of Management and Environmental Impacts in Australia

Sanitation and Hygiene Implementation Training to Minimize The Spread of Covid 19 in Family and Consumer Science Students

Examining challenges and multi-strategic approaches in waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

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