A concept developed by United States Environmental Production Agency, which ensures ranking of all methods applied to the solid waste. The hierarchy consists of five steps, they can be sorted from most preferred to less as follows: source reduction and reuse, recycling or composting, energy recovery and treatment and disposal.
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Structure Development for Effective Medical Waste and Hazardous Waste Management System
Nilgün Cılız (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Hacer Yıldırım (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), and Şila Temizel (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9723-2.ch016
Abstract
Management of medical and hazardous wastes is a serious problem especially for developing countries. People are not aware of possible threats and/or they are afraid of the cost of application. Rapid population growth leads municipalities towards proper solid waste management applications. In this study, data were collected from the Turkish Statistical Institute and a general framework was drawn for medical and hazardous waste amounts and disposal methods. Starting from this point of view, the authors analyzed both the Regulation on Control of Hazardous Waste and the Regulation on Control of Medical Waste applied in Turkey. Taking into account all of these factors, this chapter is intended to develop the medical and hazardous waste management system economically and environmentally including waste generation, collection, transportation, disposal and treatment activities. Additionally, it investigates the reasons for lack of proper application of the regulations in light of the statistical data.