PMID- 34859719
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220517
LR  - 20220517
IS  - 1096-3669 (Electronic)
VI  - 40
IP  - 7
DP  - 2022 Jul
TI  - Application of ArcGIS and QFD-based model for site selection for bio-medical 
      waste disposal.
PG  - 919-931
LID - 10.1177/0734242X211060612 [doi]
AB  - With the increasing formalisation of the health sector in India, the bio-medical 
      waste (BMW) disposal regulations are getting stringent and its implementation is 
      being enforced strictly. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) created a 
      healthcare crisis because of the highly contagious nature of the novel virus. 
      Measures employed for the prevention and management of COVID-19 resulted in the 
      generation of an unprecedented amount of BMW in Indian medical history. This BMW 
      needs to be disposed of safely at a suitable site to prevent secondary infection 
      and the potential spread of the virus in the environment. The selection of an 
      appropriate site for BMW disposal requires comparing a wide range of social, 
      economic and environmental factors corresponding to different site locations, 
      which makes it a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. This study aims 
      to solve the BMW site selection problems using a quality function 
      deployment-based model that can consider both the subjective and the objective 
      criteria, and evaluate them as per the user's requirements. The proposed model is 
      applied to evaluate the suitability of waste disposal sites in the city of 
      Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India. At first, eight possible locations for BMW 
      disposal are identified, while utilising geographical information system (GIS). 
      Consequently, the developed model is applied to evaluate the identified sites, 
      taking 18 relevant criteria into consideration. A software prototype is developed 
      in Visual BASIC 6 to automate the entire decision-making process, further adding 
      to the novelty of the work.
FAU - Jangre, Jogendra
AU  - Jangre J
AD  - Department of Production & Industrial Engineering, National Institute of 
      Technology, Jamshedpur, India.
FAU - Prasad, Kanika
AU  - Prasad K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1042-9738
AD  - Department of Production & Industrial Engineering, National Institute of 
      Technology, Jamshedpur, India.
FAU - Patel, Dharmendra
AU  - Patel D
AD  - Department of Production & Industrial Engineering, National Institute of 
      Technology, Jamshedpur, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211203
PL  - England
TA  - Waste Manag Res
JT  - Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and 
      Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
JID - 9881064
RN  - 0 (Medical Waste Disposal)
SB  - IM
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Medical Waste Disposal
MH  - *Refuse Disposal/methods
MH  - Waste Disposal Facilities
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - GIS
OT  - MCDM
OT  - QFD
OT  - bio-medical waste
OT  - site selection
OT  - software prototype
EDAT- 2021/12/04 06:00
MHDA- 2022/05/18 06:00
CRDT- 2021/12/03 08:41
PHST- 2021/12/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/05/18 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/03 08:41 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0734242X211060612 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag Res. 2022 Jul;40(7):919-931. doi: 10.1177/0734242X211060612. Epub 
      2021 Dec 3.