Sustainable Waste Management in the Healthcare Sector
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2775
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering (Ret.), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: waste management; resource recovery; environmental protection; sustainability; circular economy; metals and materials
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2. Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, Sydney, Australia
Interests: environmental sustainability of kidney medicine and dialysis; dialysis clinical management; kidney stones; electrolyte disorders; hypertension
Interests: recycling of metallurgical wastes and mining tails; nanomaterials; structural and mechanical properties; high-temperature materials and processing; heavy-metal extraction from wastewater; magnetism studies
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2. Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia
Interests: sustainability; circular economy; industrial plastics; medical plastic waste; environmental protection; waste management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Waste management in the healthcare sector including hospitals, surgeries, polyclinics, nursing homes, medical laboratories, etc., has become a severe threat to the health of the community as well as those working in hospitals due to its inherent toxic and infectious nature. Hazardous as well as non-hazardous medical waste needs to be managed in a safe and sustainable manner. This includes disposable gloves, surgical instruments, needles, blood-stained bandages, infectious wastes, chemical wastes, radioactive wastes, laboratory equipment, and any waste generated during diagnosis, treatment, and immunization. Waste-disposal methods in different countries are likely to vary depending on the types of medical/hospital waste and their technology access level.
This Special Issue will be part of the section “Environmental Sustainability and Applications” of the journal Sustainability. We welcome the submission of high-quality research or review articles in the field. The focus will be on recent developments in the field including solid and liquid wastes, their collection, disposal, and processing in a cost-effective environmentally sustainable manner. The focus will be on mitigating various environmental issues and on steps taken to enhance the sustainability of current procedures and practices around the globe.
Indicative topics include, but are not limited to:
- medical plastics;
- impact of COVID-19 and associated wastes;
- operating theatre/surgical waste;
- biomedical hazardous waste;
- solid/aquatic hospital waste;
- recycling haemodialysis reject water;
- recycling peritoneal dialysis plastics waste;
- cancer treatment and associated wastes;
- single use plastics/packaging waste;
- other topics of interest in the field.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Rita Khanna
Dr. Shaundeep Sen
Prof. Dr. Yury Konyukhov
Prof. Dr. Abhilash (Abe) Chandra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medical waste
- hazardous waste
- infectious waste
- plastics waste
- surgical waste
- economic factors
- technology upgrades
- environmental impact
- sustainability
- developing countries
