Emerging challenges in urban waste management in Tehran, Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic

• New challenges in MSW management in Tehran after the COVID-19 pandemic was studied. • Over 5.5 millions of PPEs are being daily discarded in Tehran during COVID-19. • Hospital wastes are being disposed of without undergoing any treatment in Tehran. • Landfilling of MSW has increased by 34.7% after...

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Autores principales: Zand, Ali Daryabeigi, Heir, Azar Vaezi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7359795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105051
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description • New challenges in MSW management in Tehran after the COVID-19 pandemic was studied. • Over 5.5 millions of PPEs are being daily discarded in Tehran during COVID-19. • Hospital wastes are being disposed of without undergoing any treatment in Tehran. • Landfilling of MSW has increased by 34.7% after the outbreak of COVID-19. • Secondary contagion from improper management of MSW is probable in Tehran.
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spelling pubmed-73597952020-07-15 Emerging challenges in urban waste management in Tehran, Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic Zand, Ali Daryabeigi Heir, Azar Vaezi Resour Conserv Recycl Perspective • New challenges in MSW management in Tehran after the COVID-19 pandemic was studied. • Over 5.5 millions of PPEs are being daily discarded in Tehran during COVID-19. • Hospital wastes are being disposed of without undergoing any treatment in Tehran. • Landfilling of MSW has increased by 34.7% after the outbreak of COVID-19. • Secondary contagion from improper management of MSW is probable in Tehran. Elsevier B.V. 2020-11 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7359795/ /pubmed/32834485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105051 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 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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