A Review Study to Investigate the Tracking of Biomedical Waste during Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Garima Saini, Vikas Budhwar, Manjusha Choudhary
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.
Topics & Concepts
PandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Tracking (education)VirologyBiologyMedicineOutbreakSociologyPathologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)PedagogyDiseaseHealthcare and Environmental Waste ManagementMunicipal Solid Waste ManagementRecycling and Waste Management Techniques