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ReviewJournal of material cycles and waste management2021

Insights into hazardous solid waste generation during COVID-19 pandemic and sustainable management approaches for developing countries.

Bashir Adelodun, Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade, Rahmat Gbemisola Ibrahim, Joshua O Ighalo, Hashim Olalekan Bakare, Pankaj Kumar, Ebrahem M Eid, Vinod Kumar, Golden Odey, Kyung-Sook Choi

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Review in Journal of material cycles and waste management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Does medical waste research during COVID-19 meet the challenge induced by the pandemic to waste management?Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Bashir AdelodunDepartment of Agricultural Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1533-5319
Fidelis Odedishemi AjibadeDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704, Akure, Nigeria.
Rahmat Gbemisola IbrahimKwara State Ministry of Health, Ilorin, Kwara Nigeria.
Joshua O IghaloDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Hashim Olalekan BakareDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Pankaj KumarAgro-Ecology and Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Environmental Science, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed To Be University), Haridwar, 249404 Uttarakhand India.
Ebrahem M EidBiology Department, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, 61321 Saudi Arabia.
Vinod KumarAgro-Ecology and Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Environmental Science, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed To Be University), Haridwar, 249404 Uttarakhand India.
Golden OdeyDepartment of Agricultural Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
Kyung-Sook ChoiDepartment of Agricultural Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3289-3176
University of Ilorin · NGGurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya · INKyungpook National University · KRFederal University of Technology · NGKafrelsheikh University · EGKwara State Polytechnic · NG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the drastic production and use of healthcare and personal protective equipment, leading to the release of a huge quantity of hazardous medical and solid wastes in the environment. Meanwhile, these solid wastes may contribute to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 viral particles when disposed of without proper treatment and care. Since SARS-CoV-2 could persist on different material surfaces including plastic, steel, paper, cardboard, cloth, and wood, proper management of these hazardous solid wastes has become a challenging task during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, an overview of the consumption of COVID-19-related healthcare and personal protective equipment along with the production of hazardous solid waste is presented. The efficient management of these wastes is necessary to prevent the entering of SARS-CoV-2 in various environmental compartments. Therefore, some preventive measures including the use of biodegradable materials for manufacturing personal protective equipment, minimizing the use of non-biodegradable materials, efficient pre- and-post planning, careful segregation, and disposal are, therefore, proposed for their sustainable management. The findings reported in this paper contribute to tackling the problems associated with hazardous solid waste management, particularly for low- and middle-income countries.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCOVID-19Household wasteMedical wasteSARS-CoV-2Waste management

Identifiers

PMID35194403
PMCPMC8343211
OpenAlexW3189244868

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