ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022
Biomedical waste generation and management during COVID-19 pandemic in India: challenges and possible management strategies.
Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.
- Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2026Article
- Illuminating the Invisible: Fluorescent Probes as Emerging Tools for Micro/Nanoplastic Identification.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Understanding of environmental pollution and its anthropogenic impacts on biological resources during the COVID-19 period.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Review
- Review
- Healthcare Workers' Knowledge about the Segregation Process of Infectious Medical Waste Management in a Hospital.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Generation, types and impacts of biomedical waste during COVID-19: Indian context.Environmental analysis, health and toxicology · 2023Article
- Review
- Personal protective equipment-derived pollution during Covid-19 era: A critical review of ecotoxicology impacts, intervention strategies, and future challenges.The Science of the total environment · 2023Review
- Exploring possible strategies for treating SARS-CoV-2 in sewage wastewater: A review of current research and future directions.Hygiene and environmental health advances · 2023Review
- Biomedical waste plastic: bacteria, disinfection and recycling technologies-a comprehensive review.International journal of environmental science and technology : IJEST · 2023Review
- Article
- Knowledge, awareness, and practice of biomedical waste segregation in a dental office.Journal of advanced pharmaceutical technology & research · 2022Article
- Mask consumption and biomedical waste generation rate during Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of central India.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Overcoming challenges due to enhanced biomedical waste generation during COVID-19 pandemic.The Science of the total environment · 2022Review
- Accumulation of biomedical waste during the COVID-19 pandemic: concerns and strategies for effective treatment.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
- A comprehensive review of the application of plasma gasification technology in circumventing the medical waste in a post-COVID-19 scenario.Biomass conversion and biorefinery · 2022Review
- Assessment of COVID-19 vaccination-related medical waste management practices in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2022Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the massive generation of biomedical waste (BMW) and plastic waste (PW). This sudden spike in BMW and PW has created challenges to the existing waste management infrastructure, especially in developing countries. Safe disposal of PW and BMW is essential; otherwise, this virus will lead to a waste pandemic. This paper reviews the generation of BMW and PW before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the regulatory framework for BMW management, policy interventions for COVID-19-based BMW (C-BMW), the capacity of BMW treatment and disposal facilities to cope with the challenges, possible management strategies, and perspectives in the Indian context. This study indicated that policy intervention helped minimize the general waste treated as C-BMW, especially during the second pandemic. Inadequacy of common BMW treatment facilities' (CBMWTFs) capacity to cope with the BMW daily generation was observed in some states resulting in compromised treatment conditions. Suggestions for better management of BMW and PW include decontamination of used personal protective equipment (PPEs) and recycling, alternate materials for PPEs, segregation strategies, and use of BMW for co-processing in cement kilns. All upcoming CBMWTFs should be equipped with higher capacity and efficient incinerators for the sound management of BMW. Post-pandemic monitoring of environmental compartments is imperative to assess the possible impacts of pandemic waste.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.