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Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2 Dec 2020

It reviews While protecting lives and recovery of livelihoods are at the existing practices of waste management, and identifies the core of national and local policies and actions, proper key challenges and local solutions in the provision of proper management of waste, including of household, healthcare, management of waste that is generated from healthcare and other hazardous waste, is an essent. [...] Methodology The report aims to review the existing practices of healthcare The report presents a comprehensive source of information waste management under the COVID-19 pandemic and to on healthcare waste management under the COVID-19 identify best available or appropriate waste management pandemic, which can be further utilized for the development practices that are operationally and technically. [...] Set routes should be used to prevent waste to put waste items into the correct container, and to staff and patients from being exposed, and to minimize maintain segregation of the wastes during transport, storage, the passage of loaded carts through patient care and other treatment and disposal. [...] Capacity building and awareness raising • Introduce training and education programmes for workers of healthcare facilities on potential hazards from waste, the During the COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic, the most important purpose of immunization, safe waste handling procedures, point of view is “continuity”, to manage waste generated reporting of exposures and injuries, use of PPE, and hygiene from he. [...] In this context, capacity building and awareness and waste handlers who are transporting healthcare waste raising for COVID-19 waste management in emergency to the central treatment and disposal sites, informing them response, including contingency plan development as well of the risks and handling of driving trucks with dangerous as preparedness and build back better (BBB) for further waste; in a.

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60
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Japan