ReviewEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2021
Valorisation of medical waste through pyrolysis for a cleaner environment: Progress and challenges.
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- Potential Waste-to-Wealth Strategy for Combining Medical Surgical Gloves-Derived Pyrolysis Oil with Pentanol and Nanoparticles: Experimental Analysis on Engine Behaviors.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2025Article
- Characterization and energy recovery of fuels from medical waste via thermal pyrolysis.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Evaluation of potentially toxic elements and pharmaceutical compounds in leachate and exhaust air from non-incineration medical waste treatment devices.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Co-pyrolysis of medical protective clothing and oil palm wastes for biofuel: Experimental, techno-economic, and environmental analyses.Energy (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Design and Performance Evaluation of Integrating the Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) for a Silicon Arc Furnace with Plasma Gasification for Medical Waste.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Application of Pyrolysis for the Evaluation of Organic Compounds in Medical Plastic Waste Generated in the City of Cartagena-Colombia Applying TG-GC/MS.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- A review on emergency disposal and management of medical waste during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.The Science of the total environment · 2022Review
- Post COVID-19 ENERGY sustainability and carbon emissions neutrality.Energy (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Application of poly(amidoxime)/scrap facemasks in extraction of uranium from seawater: from dangerous waste to nuclear power.Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry · 2022Article
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- Implementation of the circular supply chain management in the pharmaceutical industry.Environment, development and sustainability · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 variants and environmental effects of lockdowns, masks and vaccination: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022Review
- Review of the valorization options for the proper disposal of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.Environmental technology & innovation · 2021Review
- Assessment of municipal solid waste management system in Lae City, Papua New Guinea in the context of sustainable development.Environment, development and sustainability · 2021Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted great shocks and challenges to the environment, society and economy. Simultaneously, an intractable issue appeared: a considerable number of hazardous medical wastes have been generated from the hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities, constituting a serious threat to public health and environmental sustainability without proper management. Traditional disposal methods like incineration, landfill and autoclaving are unable to reduce environmental burden due to the issues such as toxic gas release, large land occupation, and unsustainability. While the application of clean and safe pyrolysis technology on the medical wastes treatment to produce high-grade bioproducts has the potential to alleviate the situation. Besides, medical wastes are excellent and ideal raw materials, which possess high hydrogen, carbon content and heating value. Consequently, pyrolysis of medical wastes can deal with wastes and generate valuable products like bio-oil and biochar. Consequently, this paper presents a critical and comprehensive review of the pyrolysis of medical wastes. It demonstrates the feasibility of pyrolysis, which mainly includes pyrolysis characteristics, product properties, related problems, the prospects and future challenges of pyrolysis of medical wastes.
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