Medical Waste Management related to COVID-19

The following is the compendium of information source or guidelines, regulations of countries for medical waste management related to COVID-19.

1.Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19

UNEP

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/waste-management-essential-public-service-fight-beat-covid-19

2. The UN Basel Convention’s Technical Guidelines on the Environmentally Sound Management of Biomedical and Healthcare Wastes

Basel Convention

http://www.basel.int/Implementation/TechnicalMatters/DevelopmentofTechnicalGuidelines/TechnicalGuidelines

3. Resources on the safe handling and final disposal of medical wastes

Basel Convention’s Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Beijing

http://bcrc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/col/1257152450718/index.html

4. COVID-19 Response International knowledge sharing on Waste Management

ISWA (PS)

https://www.iswa.org/iswa/covid-19/