The concerns of medical waste management during covid-19 pandemic

CC BY-NC 4.0The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact not only to the social, legal, behavioural and medical fields, but to the environment and to a waste management system as well. The COVID-19 pandemic “reported 356 million cases globally with a staggering rise in biomedical waste. India has recorded a rise of 200 tons per day of biomedical waste generation” (Kaushal, R., et al., 2022), therefore the situation of the increase of plastic in biomedical waste, was caused by the raising numbers of usage of gloves, PPE kits, masks etc., which were used to cope with the spread of the pandemic. According to the Olaniyi F. C., et al., “The nonenforcement of medical waste management are currently unable to cope with the enormous amount of the medical waste. Medical waste are being generated and illegal dumping in unapproved sites” (2018), thus after the pandemic this problem has increased significantly