The COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations for the waste and wastewater services sector

This article discusses the potential ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic on waste and wastewater services, focusing on critical points where alternative operating procedures or additional mitigation measures may be advisable. Key concerns are (i) the long half-life of the virus on materials such...

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Autores principales: Nghiem, Long D., Morgan, Branwen, Donner, Erica, Short, Michael D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191284/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cscee.2020.100006
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spelling pubmed-71912842020-04-30 The COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations for the waste and wastewater services sector Nghiem, Long D. Morgan, Branwen Donner, Erica Short, Michael D. Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering Article This article discusses the potential ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic on waste and wastewater services, focusing on critical points where alternative operating procedures or additional mitigation measures may be advisable. Key concerns are (i) the long half-life of the virus on materials such as waste containers, bags, and in wastewater, and (ii) possible transmission via contaminated waste surfaces and aerosols from wastewater systems. There are opportunities to further the science of wastewater-based epidemiology by monitoring viral RNA in wastewater to assess disease prevalence and spread in defined populations, which may prove beneficial for informing COVID-19 related public health policy. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-05 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7191284/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cscee.2020.100006 Text en Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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