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Atık yönetimi sorunu tüm dünyanın en az elli yıldan beri gündeminde olan ve giderek derinleşen bir sorunudur. Kimi gelişmiş ülkeler, atık yönetiminde önemli ilerlemeler kaydetmiş ve atığın belli proseslerden geçirilmesinin ardından farklı alanlarda kullanımı ile ekonomik ve yararlı bir ürün haline dönüştürülmesini başarmışlardır. Bu sayede bu ülkeler hem atıktan kurtulmuş hem de ısınma, geri dönüşümlü plastik gibi alanlarda kullanılmışlardır. Atık yönetimi sorunu koronavirüs hastalığı 2019 (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) pandemisi döneminde farklı boyutları ile yönetilmesi daha güç hale gelmiştir. COVID-19 pandemisi, küresel ölçekte atık yönetimi dinamiklerini kökünden değiştirmiş ve bütün ülkelerin günümüzde ve gelecekte en önemli sorunlarından biri haline gelmiştir. Pandemi öncesinde de sağlık hizmetleri dolayısıyla laboratuvar malzemeleri, biyomedikal malzemeler, kitler, iğne ve eldiven gibi atıklar çıkıyordu. Ancak pandemi dönemi ile birlikte maske, kontamine olmuş tıbbi malzemeler, eldivenler, koruyucu malzemeler, tıbbi atık ve tehlikeli atıklar miktar olarak aşırı düzeyde artmıştır. Bu kontamine atıklar, sadece çevreyi kirletmekle kalmaz, hastalığın yayılmasına da yol açar. Pandemi döneminde güçleşen atık yönetimindeki yetersizlik ve plastik ürünlere olan bağımlılığın daha fazla artması, bunların çevreye daha fazla atılmasına, çevrenin pandemi öncesine göre daha fazla kirlenmesine ve yeni çevre felaketlerinin tetiklenmesine yol açabilir. Bu çerçevede, bu çalışmada COVID-19 pandemisinin korunma tedbirleri kapsamında artan çevreyi kirletici tıbbi malzeme kullanımı dolayısıyla atık yönetimi ve çevre üzerinde oluşturduğu olumsuz etkiler incelenecektir.
The problem of waste management is a problem that has been on the agenda throughout the world for at least fifty years and is increasingly deepening. Some developed countries have made significant progress in waste management and have succeeded in transforming it into an economic and useful product with its use in different fields after the waste has been passed through certain processes. Through this, these countries have both been removed from waste and used in areas such as heating, recycled plastic. The waste management problem has become more difficult to manage with different sizes during the 2019 (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) pandemic period. The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the dynamics of global waste management and has become one of the most important problems of all countries today and in the future. Before the pandemic, there were waste, such as laboratory materials, biomedical materials, kit, inches and gloves, due to health care services. But along with the pandemic period, the amount of mask, contaminated medical materials, gloves, protective materials, medical waste and dangerous waste has increased excessively. These contaminated waste not only pollute the environment, it also leads to the spread of the disease. Increased insufficiency in waste management and increased addiction to plastic products during the pandemic period can lead to more throwing into the environment, more pollution of the environment than before the pandemic and the trigger of new environmental disasters. In this context, this study will examine the negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic on waste management and the environment as a result of the increasing use of environmentally polluting medical materials.
Waste management has been a great problem globally for at least five decades. Some of the developed countries could initiated certain processes to benefit from the waste. In this way, countries could both got rid of waste and they could exploit from it and used waste in different ways such as heating, recycling, etc. The situation became even worse during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered global waste generation dynamics and thus became one of the most important issue for all countries for now and for future. Actually, healthcare waste is all the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities, as well as waste from minor or scattered sources. However, during the pandemic, masks, increased amounts of contaminated waste including gloves, other protective equipment, and along with non-contaminated materials, many types of additional medical and hazardous waste are produced. These contaminated wastes not only dirts the environment, but also may cause the pandemic spread. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of current waste management system to deal with the increased dependence on plastic could aggravate its mismanagement and leakage into the environment, thus triggering a new environmental crisis. Therefore, this study will highlights the possible effects of COVID-19 on the waste management and environment.
Alan : Sağlık Bilimleri
Dergi Türü : Uluslararası
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