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Infectious Waste Management Strategy during COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: an Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Selecting Sustainable Technologies
Environmental Management ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 , DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01375-5 Amine Belhadi 1 , Sachin S Kamble 2 , Syed Abdul Rehman Khan 3 , Fatima Ezahra Touriki 4 , Dileep Kumar M 5
Environmental Management ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 , DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01375-5 Amine Belhadi 1 , Sachin S Kamble 2 , Syed Abdul Rehman Khan 3 , Fatima Ezahra Touriki 4 , Dileep Kumar M 5
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The emerging and underdeveloped countries in Africa face numerous difficulties managing infectious waste during the SARS-CoV-2 disease, known as the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to help decision-makers in African countries to select the best available waste management strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present research undertakes seamless assessment and prioritization of infectious solid waste (SW) and wastewater (WW) treatment technologies based on a criteria system involving four dimensions, i.e., environment-safety, technology, economics, and sociopolitics. A combined approach that integrates the results of life-cycle assessments and life-cycle costs (LCA–LCC), analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and VIKOR method in an interval-valued fuzzy (IVF) environment is proposed. The results reveal that combined incineration and chemical disinfection approach, and combined chlorination and ultraviolet irradiation are the most sustainable technologies for managing infectious SW and WW treatment in the present context. The proposed approach, alongside the findings of the study, constitutes a reference to devise urgent planning for contagious waste management in African countries as well as developing countries worldwide.
更新日期：2020-10-23
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