Open AccessDisposal of mouth covers, masks or respirators, after they are used, to minimize the environmental impact and contages by COVID 19
Author(s) -
Maria Guadalupe Hernández-Rodríguez,
Laura Antonia Ortega-Chávez,
Iveth Selene Caro-Escudero,
Alberto Guerrero Barraza-Alvárez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ecorfan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-4932
DOI - 10.35429/jusd.2021.21.7.24.33
Subject(s) - dispose pattern , waste management , personal protective equipment , covid-19 , respirator , business , hazardous waste , production (economics) , environmental science , engineering , medicine , materials science , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , composite material , macroeconomics
This article addresses the problem that is being generated by the use of mouth covers, gloves and masks used as protection against covid 19. After more than a year in a pandemic, the demand and waste of these protective implements has increased exponentially, which is why it is necessary to dispose of these sanitary wastes safely, to guarantee community health and the integrity of the environment. On the contrary, improper handling of such a volume of these wastes can have a rebound effect, both on people's health and on the environment. The objective of the research is to properly dispose of these wastes, through the use of special containers for this type of waste, as well as the proposal with the government and companies that use ovens for the production of their products, so that with the necessary measures They could dispose of this type of waste as raw material for their furnaces, since these companies have standards that they comply with to regulate the Co2 emissions that they emit into the environment, and thus minimize the impact that these wastes bring to the environment.