PMID- 33223625
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240330
IS  - 0959-6526 (Print)
IS  - 1879-1786 (Electronic)
IS  - 0959-6526 (Linking)
VI  - 281
DP  - 2021 Jan 25
TI  - Selection of the best healthcare waste disposal techniques during and post 
      COVID-19 pandemic era.
PG  - 125175
LID - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125175 [doi]
AB  - In recent years, municipal authorities especially in the developing nations are 
      battling to select the best health care waste (HCW) disposal technique for the 
      effective treatment of the medical wastes during and post COVID-19 era. As 
      evaluation of various disposal alternatives of HCW and selection of the best 
      technique requires considering various tangible and intangible criteria, this can 
      be framed as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. In this paper, we 
      propose an assessment framework for the selection of the best HCW disposal 
      technique based on socio-technical and triple bottom line perspectives. We have 
      identified 10 criteria on which the best HCW disposal techniques to be selected 
      based on extant literature review. Next, we use Fuzzy VIKOR method to evaluate 9 
      HCW disposal alternatives. The effectiveness of the proposed framework has been 
      demonstrated with a real-life case study in Indian context. To check the 
      robustness of the proposed methodology, we have compared the results obtained 
      with Fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique of Order Preference Similarity to the Ideal 
      Solution). The results help the municipal authorities to establish a methodical 
      approach to choose the best HCW disposal techniques. Our findings indicate that 
      incineration is the best waste disposal technique among the available 
      alternatives. Even if the dataset indicates 'incineration' is the best method, we 
      must not forget about the environmental concerns arising from this method. In 
      COVID time, incineration may be the best method as indicated by the data 
      analysis, but "COVID" should not be an excuse for causing "Environmental 
      Pollution".
CI  - (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Manupati, Vijaya Kumar
AU  - Manupati VK
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, 
      Telangana, India.
FAU - Ramkumar, M
AU  - Ramkumar M
AD  - Operations and Quantitative Methods Group, Indian Institute of Management Raipur, 
      Atal Nagar, Kurru (Abhanpur), Raipur, 493 661, India.
FAU - Baba, Vinit
AU  - Baba V
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, 
      Telangana, India.
FAU - Agarwal, Aayush
AU  - Agarwal A
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201118
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Clean Prod
JT  - Journal of cleaner production
JID - 101538287
PMC - PMC7671925
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - Fuzzy VIKOR
OT  - Health-care waste management
OT  - Multi criteria decision making
OT  - Socio-technical perspective
OT  - Triple bottom line
OT  - Waste minimization assessment
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2020/11/24 06:00
MHDA- 2020/11/24 06:01
PMCR- 2020/11/18
CRDT- 2020/11/23 05:35
PHST- 2020/06/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/11/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/11/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/11/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/11/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/23 05:35 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/11/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0959-6526(20)35219-7 [pii]
AID - 125175 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125175 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Clean Prod. 2021 Jan 25;281:125175. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125175. Epub 
      2020 Nov 18.