We are currently experiencing a critical period for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 related waste is a threat to global public environmental health. Medical waste management during this pandemic is one of the major issues facing public service organizations such as municipalities, which is of great importance in terms of logistics, environment and social aspects. The discussion of logistics operations is related to the collection, transportation and disposal of waste, which imposes high expenses. Many methods have been applied to develop and improve waste management policies in the literature. Apart from these studies, very few researchers have improved vehicle operations in waste management considering environmental aspects and the possibility of outsourcing. In this paper, by examining the gaps in the field, we try to explain and formulate the sustainable medical waste management problem for pandemics. Finally, by designing several practical examples with different scales, we solve the problem using CPLEX solver, compare different conditions and discuss the practical implications using the sensitivity analysis of demand parameter.

我们目前正处于预防和控制COVID-19大流行的关键时期。与COVID-19相关的废物对全球公共环境健康构成威胁。大流行期间的医疗废物管理是市政等公共服务组织面临的主要问题之一，在后勤，环境和社会方面，这是非常重要的。关于物流运作的讨论涉及废物的收集，运输和处置，这带来了高昂的费用。文献中已经采用了许多方法来制定和改进废物管理政策。除了这些研究，考虑到环境方面和外包的可能性，很少有研究人员在废物管理中改善车辆的操作。在本文中，通过研究该领域的差距，我们试图为流行病解释和制定可持续的医疗废物管理问题。最后，通过设计几个不同规模的实际示例，我们使用CPLEX求解器解决问题，比较不同条件，并使用需求参数的敏感性分析来讨论实际含义。