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Principal of environmental life cycle assessment for medical waste during COVID-19 outbreak to support sustainable development goals

期刊 The Science of the total environment
发表日期 2022-Jun-25
作者 Nabavi-Pelesaraei Ashkan; Mohammadkashi Naghmeh; Naderloo Leila; Abbasi Mahsa; Chau Kwok-Wing
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154416
PMID 35276163
原始摘要

Disposal of medical waste (MW) must be considered as a vital need to prevent the spread of pandemics during Coronavirus disease of the pandemic in 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the globe. In addition, many concerns have been raised due to the significant increase in the generation of MW in recent years. A structured evaluation is required as a framework for the quantifying of potential environmental impacts of the disposal of MW which ultimately leads to the realization of sustainable development goals (SDG). Life cycle assessment (LCA) is considered as a practical approach to examine environmental impacts of any potential processes during all stages of a product's life, including material mining, manufacturing, and delivery. As a result, LCA is known as a suitable method for evaluating environmental impacts for the disposal of MW. In this research, existing scenarios for MW with a unique approach to emergency scenarios for the management of COVID-19 medical waste (CMW) are investigated. In the next step, LCA and its stages are defined comprehensively with the CMW management approach. Moreover, ReCiPe2016 is the most up-to-date method for computing environmental damages in LCA. Then the application of this method for defined scenarios of CMW is examined, and interpretation of results is explained regarding some examples. In the last step, the process of selecting the best environmental-friendly scenario is illustrated by applying weighting analysis. Finally, it can be concluded that LCA can be considered as an effective method to evaluate the environmental burden of CMW management scenarios in present critical conditions of the world to support SDG.

撤稿信息
撤稿日期 2026-07-21
撤稿期刊 The Science of the total environment
发布机构 Netherlands
通知PMID 42481256
撤稿通知标题:
Retraction notice to "Principal of environmental life cycle assessment for medical waste during COVID-19 outbreak to support sustainable development goals" [Sci. Total Environ. 827(2022) 154416]
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研究领域
环境科学
文章类型
原创研究(Original Research)
研究方法
其他
疾病/条件
COVID-19医疗废物
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研究机构
Department of Mechanical Engineering of Biosystems, Faculty of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran; Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science & Engineering, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran; Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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伊朗; 中国
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