A Review Study to Investigate the Tracking of Biomedical Waste during Covid-19 Pandemic in India. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saini, Garima; Budhwar, Vikas; Choudhary, Manjusha
• Is Part Of: Environmental claims journal. Volume 35:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 155
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Liability for environmental damages -- United States -- Periodicals; 346.730305
• DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2023000
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1040-6026

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this review article is planning to collect, transport, processing and dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous biomedical waste, with a special concern on the biomedical waste tracking system in India. This review article sheds insight on some of the tracking systems of COVID-19 waste over the barcode, IoT, and GPS-based trash monitoring, related to COVID-19 waste management. Better waste management may reduce the amount of time that garbage is exposed to the environment and the risk of transportation. COVID-19 waste treatment facility might assist to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, as well as the hazardous component risk respectively.