Municipal solid waste management under Covid-19: Challenges and recommendations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F21%3A43919894" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/21:43919894 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.20.00082" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.20.00082</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jenge.20.00082" target="_blank" >10.1680/jenge.20.00082</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Municipal solid waste management under Covid-19: Challenges and recommendations
Original language description
Covid-19 is proving to be an unprecedented disaster for human health, social contacts and the economy worldwide. It is evident that SARS-CoV-2 may spread through municipal solid waste (MSW), if collected, bagged, handled, transported or disposed of inappropriately. Under the stress placed by the current pandemic on the sanitary performance across all MSW management (MSWM) chains, this industry needs to re-examine its infrastructure resilience with respect to all processes, from waste identification, classification, collection, separation, storage, transportation, recycling, treatment and disposal. The current paper provides an overview of the severe challenges placed by Covid-19 onto MSW systems, highlighting the essential role of waste management in public health protection during the ongoing pandemic. It also discusses the measures issued by various international organisations and countries for the protection of MSWM employees (MSWEs), identifying gaps, especially for developing countries, where personal protection equipment and clear guidelines to MSWEs may not have been provided, and the general public may not be well informed. In countries with high recycling rates of MSW, the need to protect MSWEs' health has affected the supply stream of the recycling industry. The article concludes with recommendations for the MSW industry operating under public health crisis conditions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Geotechnics
ISSN
2051-803X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
217-232
UT code for WoS article
000656044400005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106954815