Medical Waste Management during COVID-19 Situation: Perspective Towards Safe Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANOJ KUMAR JINDAL ◽  
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sar
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Open Dumping ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

The situation in the world of pandemics is rapidly changing, and the second wave of COVID-19 has put a lot of pressure on the government and private sector, which are primarily responsible for controlling the situation. COVID-19 positive cases have increased in recent months relative to last year, and the number of patients admitted to hospitals has also increased, despite the fact that few of them were denied admission due to shortage of beds. Normal people who experience any symptoms immediately isolate themselves and begin taking the COVID medications prescribed by medical personnel and their team. During these times, all domestic people tossed the wrappers and boxes of medicines into the regular trash can, and the waste was handed over to the waste collector, who treated it like any other domestic waste and disposed of it using open dumping or other methods. The goal of this perspective is to suggest the collections of these types of waste from domestics, and protect the natural resources like water, soil, and even living beings like animals from pollution (from the effect of SARS-CoV-2). The main challenge for environmental waste management agencies is determining who has COVID positive and which houses generate these types of waste; thus, proposed strategy may be beneficial to the long-term sustainability of natural resources and animals.

scholarly journals Industrial Waste Management and Environment: A Study in Kamrangirchar (Raised Land), Dhaka

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Shahanaz Akter ◽  
Md. Muniruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Industrial Waste Management ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Buriganga River

Kamrangirchar is a raised land and industrial area situated on the bank of the Buriganga River in Dhaka city. The industries of this area are producing a huge amount of solid and liquid wastes all of which are disposed into the Buriganga river and other nearby places. This study attempts to explore the scenario of industrial waste management in Kamrangirchar (raised land) and its effect on the surrounding environment. The methodology of this study includes in-depth interviews and tries to explore the ways of managing waste properly. This study tries to explore more effective ways of managing industrial waste for a sound and safe environment. Environmental pollution has been a major global problem nowadays. Nature is being destroyed because of the excessive exploitation of the environment. Some elements of the environment and ecology like forests, natural sources of water, land, and air are gradually being polluted in Bangladesh, although these are essential for survival. Lack of awareness of the industrial units, poor implementation of the government policy of industrial waste management, inappropriate initiatives to dispose of the waste properly, and ineffective laws are responsible for the improper management of industrial waste in Kamrangirchar which is affecting the environment directly and indirectly.

scholarly journals Assessment of Impediments and Factors Affecting Waste Management: A Case of Accra Metropolis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford James Fagariba ◽  
Shaoxian Song
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Constraints

Solid waste management in Accra is a major challenge to the Metropolitan Authorities and inhabitants. The rapidly increasing population coupled with poor capacity of the municipal and private waste management companies to management waste effectively has created issues of environmental concern. Due to poor wastement managements systems, most household dispose waste discriminately leading to floods and health issues. The study showed that about 60% of household waste is organic materials which has the potential to be converted to compost for agriculture purpose. Meanwhile plastics and rubbers which litters the environment  as well as blocking major storm drains and gutters hence creating huge environmental hazard is made of 11% of the total component of most household waste generated daily. The study also revealed that among the methods of disposing waste, dumping waste in skip containers located at authorized places was the preferred means of disposing waste by household though others also dispose waste by other means such as burying and burning. Inadequate skip containers per population of household in an area coupled with irregularity of tracks picking these containers makes skip containers dumping site ugly scene, hence creating health issues. Among the constraints that impact negatively on sustainable waste management in Accra Metropolis, economic constraints was perceived as the main challenge which affect efficient waste management as currently the country is going through serious economic challenges so government does not release money timely to fund projects which waste management is key. Most donor partners that use to support the government with funds have either reduced or redrawn their services as they have no confidence in the state of Ghana economy. Aside the constrains, the study also indicated that factors such as poor public attitude towards waste management, poor enforcement of sanitation by-laws, inadequate and untimely release of government funds were also seen as the main factors affecting waste management.

scholarly journals peningkatan TQM di Rumah Sakit

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
vovi tridian ulfah ◽  
Rusdinal ◽  
Hade Afriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Medical Equipment ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Government ◽  
Improve Service Quality ◽  
Satisfaction With Services

Abstrak¬¬-- In order to improve service quality conduct and synergize management to complement hospitals medical equipment supported by medical personnel who are quite reliable in their fields. Steps taken by the hospital, among others, cooperating with the government, opportunities for open relations partnership for investors to develop this hospital to be better in the future. a hospital is one of the community service centers that can accommodate people who will undergo medical treatment or care.the increasing number of people in Indonesia has resulted in a large number of patients to be dealt with, and it is evident that we can see that there are currently many private hospitals in circulation, thus reducing the prestige of public hospitals.To improve the quality of the hospital, it is necessary to improve the quality of the hospital, which is a challenge for leaders who are sick, especially in developing service quality, such as services from doctors, nurses, staff and other employees to increase community satisfaction with services. which is given

scholarly journals PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH KOTA BERDASARKAN KONSEP ZERO WASTE

Pondasi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Marlita Riali
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Sanitary Landfill ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Open Dumping ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

AbstractWaste becomes one of the crucial problems, even including cultural problems, because the impact will disrupt all aspects of life. Most landfills are operated using an open dumping system even though the landfill is designed with a sanitary landfill system. Therefore proper handling is needed to reduce the risks associated with waste problems. One of the waste handlings that can be done is with a sustainable waste management system, which is the concept of zero waste. This is in line with the efforts of the SDGs' target to state that the country as a whole can reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with a technical approach to the analysis of literature studies in examining zero waste-based waste management systems through several case studies, namely the City of Canberra, South Korea, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, and Germany. The results showed that implementing the waste management system with the concept of zero waste required the collaboration of all parties not only stakeholders, and indirectly the cultural characteristics of the community played an important role to realize the concept of zero waste because of the need for high public awareness. And essentially all parties, both the government and the community want to reduce the amount of waste from both sources and landfills and improve the recycling system to create an ideal city. Keywords: Municipal Waste, Waste Management, Zero Waste AbstrakSampah menjadi salah satu permasalahan yang krusial bahkan termasuk masalah kultural karena dampak yang ditimbulkan akan mengganggu semua aspek kehidupan. Sebagian besar tempat pembuangan sampah dioperasikan dengan menggunakan sistem open dumping walaupun TPA tersebut didesain dengan sistem sanitary landfill. Oleh sebab itu diperlukan penanganan yang tepat untuk mengurangi resiko terkait masalah sampah. Salah satu penanganan sampah yang dapat dilakukan adalah dengan sistem pengolahan sampah berkelanjutan yaitu konsep zero waste. Hal ini sejalan dengan upaya target SDGs menyatakan bahwa negara secara menyeluruh mampu mengurangi timbulan sampah melalui pencegahan, pengurangan, daur ulang, dan pemakaian kembali. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan teknis analisis studi literatur dalam mengkaji sistem pengelolaan sampah berbasis zero waste melalui beberapa studi kasus yaitu Kota Canberra, Korea Selatan, Swedia, Brasil, Jepang, dan Jerman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa untuk menerapkan sistem pegelolaan sampah dengan konsep zero waste diperlukan kerjasama semua pihak tidak hanya pemangku kepentingan, dan secara tidak langsung komitmen masyarakat berperan penting untuk mewujudkan konsep zero waste karena perlunya kesadaran masyarakat yang tinggi. Dan pada hakekatnya semua pihak baik pemerintah dan masyarakat menginginkan untuk mengurangi jumlah sampah baik dari sumber maupun TPA dan meningkatkan sistem daur ulang untuk mewujudkan kota yang ideal.Kata Kunci : Sampah Kota, Pengelolaan Sampah, Zero Waste

scholarly journals Not In My Backyard: The impact of waste disposal sites on communities in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raya Taher ◽  
Farah Abu Safe ◽  
Jean-Patrick Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Sustainable Waste Management ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Waste disposal sites across Jordan pose serious risks to the environment and to public health if not managed safely. Municipal waste decomposing in open landfills also takes an environmental and socio-economic toll on neighbouring communities. While the Government of Jordan is planning to reduce the number of operational landfills and improve waste management services, persistent issues associated with unsustainable waste practices and their associated effects on the wellbeing of surrounding communities and the environment need to be addressed. Guaranteeing a sustainable waste management scheme for communities in Jordan should include increased consideration of the long-term effects that waste disposal sites have on neighbouring communities.

Port Hope Area Initiative

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brown ◽  
David McCauley
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Term Management

The Port Hope Area Initiative involves a process that will lead to the cleanup of low-level radioactive wastes in two communities in Southern Ontario and the construction of three new long-term waste management facilities in those communities. The history of the Initiative provides important insights into local participation and the successes and failures of siting efforts. The wastes resulted from the operations of an industrial process in Port Hope that began in the 1930s. Initially, wastes (contaminated with radium, uranium, and arsenic) from radium processing were deposited in a relatively uncontrolled manner at various locations within the town. By the 1940s, uranium processing wastes were deposited at nearby purpose-built radioactive waste management facilities. The problem of contamination was first recognized in 1974 and the worst cases quickly cleaned up. However, large volumes of contamination remained in the community. There were three successive efforts to develop an approach to deal with the area’s contamination. In the early to mid 1980s, a standard approach was employed; i.e. indentifying the most technically appropriate local site for a disposal facility, proceeding to evaluate that site, and communicating the benefits of the chosen approach to the local community. That approach was resoundingly rejected by local citizens and government representatives. The second effort, an innovative and consultative voluntary siting effort carried out during the late-1980s and early to mid-1990s involved the solicitation of other municipalities to volunteer to host a facility for the disposal of the Port Hope areas wastes. That effort resulted in the identification of a single volunteer community. However, negotiations between the federal government and the municipality were unable to reach an acceptable agreement establishing the conditions for the community to host the waste management facility. The third effort, a community-driven approach, was undertaken in the late-1990s and resulted in an agreement in 2001 between the Government of Canada and the local communities that sets in motion a process for the cleanup of the local wastes and long-term management in new local waste management facilities. This paper provides insights into the history of the problem, the efforts of the federal government over the last two decades to deal with the issue, how local participation and decision-making processes affected the successes of the various siting approaches, and lessons learned that might be of interest to others who must deal with environmental remediation situations that involve siting long-term management facilities.

Planning for the Recreational End Use of a Future LLR Waste Mound in Canada: Leaving an Honourable Legacy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Kleb ◽  
R. L. Zelmer
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Long Term Storage ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
End Use

The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office was established in 1982 to carry out the federal government’s responsibilities for low-level radioactive (LLR) waste management in Canada. In this capacity, the Office operates programs to characterize, delineate, decontaminate and consolidate historic LLR waste for interim and long-term storage. The Office is currently the proponent of the Port Hope Area Initiative; a program directed at the development and implementation of a safe, local long-term management solution for historic LLR waste in the Port Hope area. A legal agreement between the Government of Canada and the host community provides the framework for the implementation of the Port Hope Project. Specifically, the agreement requires that the surface of the long-term LLR waste management facility be “conducive to passive and active recreational uses such as soccer fields and baseball diamonds.” However, there are currently no examples of licensed LLR waste management facilities in Canada that permit recreational use. Such an end use presents challenges with respect to engineering and design, health and safety and landscape planning. This paper presents the cover system design, the environmental effects assessment and the landscape planning processes that were undertaken in support of the recreational end use of the Port Hope long-term LLR waste management facility.

scholarly journals Peningkatan TQM di Kualitas RUmah Sakit

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
vovi tridian ulfah ◽  
Rusdinal ◽  
Hade Afriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Medical Equipment ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Government ◽  
Improve Service Quality ◽  
Satisfaction With Services

Abstrak¬¬-- In order to improve service quality conduct and synergize management to complement hospitals medical equipment supported by medical personnel who are quite reliable in their fields. Steps taken by the hospital, among others, cooperating with the government, opportunities for open relations partnership for investors to develop this hospital to be better in the future. a hospital is one of the community service centers that can accommodate people who will undergo medical treatment or care.the increasing number of people in Indonesia has resulted in a large number of patients to be dealt with, and it is evident that we can see that there are currently many private hospitals in circulation, thus reducing the prestige of public hospitals.To improve the quality of the hospital, it is necessary to improve the quality of the hospital, which is a challenge for leaders who are sick, especially in developing service quality, such as services from doctors, nurses, staff and other employees to increase community satisfaction with services. which is given

The Government of Canada’s Programs for Radioactive Waste Cleanup and Long-Term Management

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave McCauley ◽  
Douglas Metcalfe ◽  
Marcia Blanchette ◽  
Tom Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Radioactive Wastes ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Uranium Mine ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Term Management

The Government of Canada’s 1996 Policy Framework for Radioactive Waste Management establishes that waste owners are responsible for the management of their radioactive wastes. This includes the planning, funding, and implementation of long-term waste management initiatives. Within this context, the Government has established three separate programs aimed at addressing the long-term management of radioactive waste for which it has accepted responsibility. The largest of these programs is the Nuclear Legacy Liabilities Program (NLLP). The objective of the NLLP is to address radioactive waste and decommissioning liabilities resulting from 60 years of nuclear research and development at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) sites in Canada. In 2005, the Government increased the value of this liability in its Public Accounts based on a new, 70-year long-term strategy and, in 2006, it implemented a $520 million 5-year work plan to initiate the strategy. The cost of implementing the full strategy is estimated at about $7 billion (current-day dollars). Canada’s Historic Waste Program is a second program that is designed to address low-level radioactive wastes across Canada that are not managed in an appropriate manner for the long-term and for which the current owner can not reasonably be held responsible. These wastes mainly emanate from the refining and use of radium in the 1930s and the very early days of the nuclear industry in Canada when radioactive ores were mined and transported long distances for processing. While the Historic Waste Program has been in place since 1982, the Government of Canada launched the Port Hope Area Initiative in 2001 to deal with the bulk of the waste. Finally, the Government of Canada has entered into two agreements with Canadian provincial governments on roles and responsibilities relating to the decommissioning of uranium mine and mill tailings sites. These agreements, one with the Province of Ontario and one with the Province of Saskatchewan, establish the responsibilities of each level of government to address circumstances where further decommissioning work is required and the producer can no longer be held responsible. The paper will provide an overview of these environmental remediation programs for radioactive waste and will describe recent progress and future challenges.

scholarly journals The Importance of the Public Sector in Sustainable Development in Poland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Alińska ◽  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Aneta Kosztowniak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

The striving for sustainable development has become the goal of actions undertaken not only by representatives of public authorities and institutions representing this sector, but also representatives of private entities who are increasingly recognizing the benefits and sources of long-term development based on the principles and objectives of sustainable development. These are mainly based on the pursuit of synergy in the three basic areas of activities, i.e., in the economic, social, and environmental dimensions as well as in the maintenance of natural resources. The implementation of these activities is connected with the necessity of incurring financial expenditures, which the government (public sector) does not have in the required value. Therefore, in the process of sustainable development for which the government is responsible, the active participation of the financial sector (banks) is necessary. Achieving results within the alliance of the concept of sustainable development requires the setting of a kind of contract, the parties of which are the government, society, and financial institutions. The purpose of the conducted research is to indicate by which means the government can stimulate economic growth towards its sustainable development. 

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