COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities In Waste Management

Author Name : Methilesh Dara, GNPV Babu

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Global crisis has been created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it will have repercussions in the fields of health, security, and economics. Municipal solid waste (MSW) management practices are studied in the context of an actual experiment, in which a selection of developed and developing countries have two unique aspects of their garbage management examined: MSW treatment and disposal facilities. Information and data that have been used in this paper have been culled from multiple scientific papers that utilize information from several diverse sources, publications by various governments and multilateral organizations, and media reports. Despite there being a lack of literature on MSW management during these crises, this article sets the global stage and examines different facets of MSW management during the COVID-19 outbreak. There will be a discussion on the parameters of disease transmission from solid waste handling, the consequences of the current municipal waste treatment and disposal system under increasing medical waste, and their implications. Additional, previous pandemic and disaster waste management studies show that the after-effects of the ongoing pandemic will present a set of problems and opportunities. As part of its research on the best methods of providing medical services to and dealing with MSW, the paper recommends and outlines the implementation of new approaches and objectives for long-term waste management during and following a pandemic.

Keywords: waste management, covid-19, disposal routes, healthy practices.