Medical waste management in the pandemic disease conditions

Anna Rolewicz-Kalińska1 anna_rolewicz-kalinska [at] is.pw.edu.pl
  1. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Warsaw
Abstract 

This paper focuses on the risk for medical waste management system in terms an outbreak of pandemic disease.It analyzes the most important properties of infectious medical waste and recognizes the main risks. In addition, an attempt was made to identify the key linkages between the increasing the number of cases and risks associated with infectious medical waste stream

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