Title: Assessment and disposal issues of biomedical waste - case study Allahabad city

Authors: Shikha Saxena; R.K. Srivastava

Addresses: Department of Civil Engineering, B.B.S. College of Engineering and Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. ' Department of Civil Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 211004, India

Abstract: Infectious biomedical waste poses various problems of health because it is usually not segregated in developing countries like India and is disposed off along with the municipal solid waste. The quantity of infectious generated waste is small when compared with total biomedical waste generated as reported by various research institutions of medical sciences. This work involves the estimation of infectious biomedical waste for the study area, which is Allahabad city. The projection of infectious biomedical waste has been done for 25 years and its disposal issues have been discussed.

Keywords: infectious waste; healthcare waste; medical waste; hospital waste; municipal solid waste; MSW; biomedical waste; waste disposal; developing countries; India; waste management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2011.042501

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2011 Vol.7 No.1, pp.97 - 104

Published online: 21 Jan 2015 *

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