Review of hospital plastic waste management strategies for Pakistan

Gill, Yasir Qayyum; Khurshid, Mudasar; Abid, Umer; Ijaz, Muhammad Wajid

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-17731-9

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“…Reflecting this to the context of Pakistan, a country where environmental issues are becoming more intense with each passing year, the country’s healthcare sector needs to take different initiatives to mitigate its harmful impact on the environment. Hospitals in Pakistan generate huge waste on daily basis, including plastic, textile, food, glass, and others [ 30 ]. Given that the hospital industry in Pakistan employs a huge workforce, it is worthwhile to mitigate the negative environmental effect of this segment by promoting the PEB among employees through CSR and ESTL.…”

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Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees

Deng

Cherian

Scholz

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The healthcare sector throughout the world is identified for its outsized carbon footprint. Despite the mounting importance of employees’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB) for decarbonization, the role of PEB in a healthcare context was less emphasized previously, especially in a developing country context. To address this knowledge gap, the current work was carried out to examine the relationship between a hospital’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and PEB with the mediating effect of environmental-specific transformational leadership (ESTL). At the same time, the conditional indirect effect of altruistic values (AV) was also considered in the above relationship. The data were collected through a questionnaire by employing a paper-pencil method from the hospital employees (n = 293). By considering the structural equation modeling, the hypothesized relationships were validated. The results indicated that CSR directly (β1 = 0.411) and indirectly, via ESTL, (β4 = 0.194) influenced the PEB of employees. It was also realized that A.V produced a conditional indirect effect in this relationship (β5 = 0.268). This work tends to help a hospital to improve its environmental footprint through CSR and ESTL. Moreover, the current work also highlights the role of employees’ values (e.g., A.V) to guide the environment-specific behavior of employees.

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Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees

Deng

Cherian

Scholz

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IJERPH

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“…The alarming increase in plastic waste has pushed policy makers to provide effective strategies regarding management of plastic waste (Gill et al 2021). European countries have set strict rules regarding plastic value chain, production, and consumption patterns in order to improve sustainability and adopted circular approach to reduce plastic waste (Foschi and Bonoli 2019).…”

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Waste management and green technology: future trends in circular economy leading towards environmental sustainability

Tanveer

Khan

Umar

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The effective treatment of waste to be used as a resource in future has a major role in achieving environmental sustainability and moving towards circular economy. The current research is aimed to provide in-depth detail regarding prominent trends and research themes, evolution, future research orientation, main characteristics, and mapping of research publications on waste management, technological innovation in circular economy domain from the year 2000 to 2021. Different analyses including text mining and bibliometric and content analyses were applied to answer the research question and provide the details on aforementioned variables. From the bibliometric analyses, a total of 1118 articles were drawn out from the Scopus database to conceptualize the core body of research. As a result, the following themes were identified: electronic waste, circular economy transition, plastic waste, bio-based waste management, lifecycle assessment, and ecological impacts, and construction and demolition waste management. The highlighted features, future research orientation, and prominent research perspective can provide guideline for future research to enrich the literature through conducting studies on provided research directions and help lead waste management and technological innovation policymakers, professionals, and practitioners in moving towards circular transition.

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“…One of the most important applications of plastics is packaging. Generally, packaging accounts for around 40% of all plastic materials used worldwide [ 10 ]. Unfortunately, bottles, bags, packaging materials, containers, cups, and lids are just a few of the plastic wastes found.…”

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ABS/Silicon Dioxide Micro Particulate Composite from 3D Printing Polymeric Waste

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In this paper, Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene matrix composites reinforced with Nano-silica dioxide particles were examined and prepared to study their mechanical properties. The composite sheets were pre-prepared using the hot extrusion process. Due to its wide characteristics, silica dioxide additions can strengthen the usability and mechanical features of composite thermoplastics and polymers. Furthermore, introducing silica dioxide as a filler in various attributes can help to maintain the smooth flow of sufficient powders, reduce caking, and manage viscoelasticity. Despite its advantages, 3D printing generates a significant amount of waste due to limited prints or destroyed support structures. ABS is an ideal material to use because it is a thermoplastic and amorphous polymer with outstanding thermal properties that is also applicable with the FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) technique. The findings showed that increasing the silica dioxide content reduces the tensile strength to 22.4 MPa at 10 wt%. Toughness, ductility, and yield stress values of ABS/silica dioxide composites at 15 wt% increased, indicating that the composite material reinforced by the silica dioxide particles improved material characteristics. It is essential to consider the impact of recycling in polymer reinforcement with fillers. Furthermore, the improved mechanical qualities of the composite material encourages successful ABS recycling from 3D printing, as well as the possibility of reusing it in a similar application.

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Review of hospital plastic waste management strategies for Pakistan

Cited by 21 publications

References 68 publications

Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees

Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees

Waste management and green technology: future trends in circular economy leading towards environmental sustainability

ABS/Silicon Dioxide Micro Particulate Composite from 3D Printing Polymeric Waste

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