Microbial strategies for degradation of microplastics generated from COVID-19 healthcare waste

Dey, Satarupa; Anand, Uttpal; Kumar, Vineet; Kumar, Sunil; Ghorai, Mimosa; Ghosh, Arabinda; Kant, Nishi; Suresh, S.; Bhattacharya, Sayan; Bontempi, Elza; Bhat, Sartaj Ahmad; Dey, Abhijit

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.114438

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“…Poor healthcare waste (HCW) management represents a major worldwide issue and is often associated with various health and environmental problems, including disease transmission and environmental pollution ( Dey et al, 2023 ; Ekanayake et al, 2023 ). The disposal of HCWs containing infectious agents generated from healthcare facilities into landfills, without appropriate segregation has been widely reported in developing countries ( Agwu, 2012 ; Khan et al, 2019 ).…”

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Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against beta-lactams

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Musa

Sabri

et al. 2023

Environmental Research

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against beta-lactams

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Musa

Sabri

et al. 2023

Environmental Research

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“…There is also a threat of carbon dioxide emission due to increasing plastic waste. The number of facemasks used by China and Japan per day is near around 14.8 million (Dey et al 2023 ). Disposal face mask is alarming for the biodiversity, which can harm the digestive system and cause internal blockage.…”

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Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Pollution and Effective Management

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The present world is now facing the challenge of proper management and resource recovery of the enormous amount of plastic waste. Lack of technical skills for managing hazardous waste, insufficient infrastructure development for recycling and recovery, and above all, lack of awareness of the rules and regulations are the key factors behind this massive pile of plastic waste. The severity of plastic pollution exerts an adverse effect on the environment and total ecosystem. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of plastic waste generation, as well as its effect on the human being and ecological system, is discussed in terms of source identification with respect to developed and developing countries. A detailed review of the existing waste to energy and product conversion strategies is presented in this study. Moreover, this study sheds light on sustainable waste management procedures and identifies the key challenges to adopting effective measures to minimise the negative impact of plastic waste.

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“…To decrease the levels of these hazardous substances, multi-departmental steps need to be carried out, using mixed microbes, including bacteria, fungi, and microalgae. Dey et al (2023) evaluated the fate of plastic wastes, an additional challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Significant amounts of municipal waste due to use-and-throw plastic products such as gloves, masks, hand towels, and other personal protective equipment (PPEs) are produced as additional waste (Dey et al, 2023).…”

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“…Dey et al (2023) evaluated the fate of plastic wastes, an additional challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Significant amounts of municipal waste due to use-and-throw plastic products such as gloves, masks, hand towels, and other personal protective equipment (PPEs) are produced as additional waste (Dey et al, 2023). Such wastes are highly persistent in nature and leave microplastics as byproducts.…”

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“…After a significant number of PPE have been used, how to discard about 1.56 billion masks could be an empirical menace to the environment. In particular, it is to be noted that microplastics, regarded as emergent pollutants, are the products of further breaking down of plastics (Dey et al, 2023;Idowu et al, 2023). Limited information has existed in the literature on the amount, source, and circulation of PPE in water bodies; however, many researchers have studied this challenge (Aragaw, 2020;De-la-Torre and Aragaw, 2021), and it has remained ambiguous in the freshwater environment.…”

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A sustainable trend in COVID-19 research: An environmental perspective

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Ghasemi²,

Samani³

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread across the globe producing hundreds of thousands of deaths, shutting down economies, closing borders and causing havoc on an unprecedented scale. Its potent effects have earned the attention of researchers in different fields worldwide. Among them, authors from different countries have published numerous research articles based on the environmental concepts of COVID-19. The environment is considered an essential receptor in the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is academically significant to look into publications to follow the pathway of hot topics of research and upcoming trends in studies. Reviewing the literature can therefore provide valuable information regarding the strengths and weaknesses in facing the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the environmental viewpoint. The present study categorizes the understanding caused by environmental and COVID-19-related published papers in the Scopus metadata from 2020 to 2021. VOSviewer is a promising bibliometric tool used to analyze the publications with keywords “COVID-19*” and “Environment.” Then, a narrative evaluation is utilized to delineate the most interesting research topics. Co-occurrence analysis is applied in this research, which further characterizes different thematic clusters. The published literature mainly focused on four central cluster environmental concepts: air pollution, epidemiology and virus transmission, water and wastewater, and environmental policy. It also reveals that environmental policy has gained worldwide interest, with the main keyword “management” and includes keywords like waste management, sustainability, governance, ecosystem, and climate change. Although these keywords could also appear in other environmental policy-related research studies, the importance of the COVID-19 pandemic requires such comprehensive research. The fourth cluster involves governance and management concerns encountered during the pandemic. Mapping the research topics in different clusters will pave the way for researchers to view future potential ideas and studies better. The scope for further research needs from the perspective of environmental concepts is reviewed and recommended, which can expand the vital role and value of environmental sciences in alerting, observing, and COVID-19 prediction for all four clusters. In other words, the research trend would shift from qualitative studies and perspectives to quantitative ones.

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Microbial strategies for degradation of microplastics generated from COVID-19 healthcare waste

Cited by 43 publications

References 137 publications

Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against beta-lactams

Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against beta-lactams

Plastic Waste: Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Pollution and Effective Management

A sustainable trend in COVID-19 research: An environmental perspective

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