A potential win for the planet as the pandemic rages on.
—is a bit of a mystery. For normal folks, that means our used necessary protective items end up in the landfill.
“It is absolutely vital to provide health workers with the right PPE,” Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said. “But it is also vital to ensure that it can be used safely without impacting on the surrounding environment.” Even pre-COVID, 30 percent of healthcare systems weren’t prepared for the amount of waste produced,
Right now, the authors have broken down the process, which is shockingly simple, for the state of New York. Basically, there are two proposed steps—the first of which is taking waste PPE from hospitals and healthcare centers and depositing it at medical waste processing and decontamination facilities . This is where the masks and other PPE would be sterilized and then shredded into tiny pieces.These tiny pieces would then be sent to an integrated pyrolysis plant.
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