Biomedical waste is a hazard to worldwide communal environmental health. Productive biomedical waste administration is the need of great importance and a prompt order that needs to be addressed. Different stakeholders, for example, worldwide associations, government bodies, the scholarly community, biomedical waste treatment facilities and advancement suppliers are working inseparably to deal with the high amounts of biomedical waste created across the world. Appropriate biomedical waste (BMW) organization in understanding to the specified standard was one of the disregarded parts of medical care for quite a long time, particularly in non-developing nations like India. In the midst of the COVID infection 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the situation may deteriorate as confirmed by some underlying encounters, with heaps of personal protective equipment (PPE) collecting in the medical clinics. As is apparent from the current circumstance of the pandemic, essential disease control rehearses are the solitary measures for regulation. Appropriate garbage removal is a necessary piece of these control measures. There may be a genuine danger of spreading coronavirus whenever utilized covers, gloves, and other personal protective equipment are not handled and discarded appropriately. Also, household waste (e.g., tissues, face masks, gloves) puts waste management laborers at expanded health hazard. The COVID-19 pandemic and legislative strategies to contain the spread of virus have caused a universal financial downturn and have likewise produced a gigantic measure of biomedical waste. The arrangement was incredibly impacted by dispensable plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) and single-use plastics by online shopping for a large portion of the fundamental need. The utilization of PPEs and single-use plastics during the pandemic builds the amount of biomedical waste. Larger boundary of mobile services should be sustained, especially during the pandemic, which can be significant for the developing nations where the medical waste removal conveniences are restricted. The mobile services are helpful for the crisis circumstance as well as be utilized as an essential reinforcement limit. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Sustainable Management of Biomedical Waste During COVID-19 Pandemic