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7 Recommendations
Constant and regular awareness sessions need to be conducted to all categories of
staff. Reduce, reuse and recycle are also a form of patriotism, because we are helping
our country to save money and reduce our dependence on other countries for raw
materials.
Every single human being living on this planet has a part to play in reducing,
reusing and recycling, as well as in protecting this precious world, and making it
greener, less toxic and more inhabitable (Alhumoud and Alhumoud 2007).
Acknowledgements We thank the support of the management, principal and the medical superintendent in performing our study. We acknowledge the support of faculty and post graduates of
hospital administration, nursing superintendent, supervisors and cross section of doctors, staff nurses
and housekeeping supervisors and staff who participated in the study. We acknowledge the assistance and involvement of AGM, maintenance, electrical engineer, biomedical waste asst manager
and we thank the statistician who helped for data analysis for the study.
No conflict of interest between or among authors of the study.
Source of funding: Nil.
References
Ahmadi, M. (2007). Evaluating the performance of 3Rs waste practices: Case study-region one
municipality of Tehran. Advances in Recycling & Waste Management.
Alhumoud, J. M., & Alhumoud, H. M. (2007). An analysis of trends related to hospital solid wastes
management in Kuwait. Management of Environmental Quality. https://www.emeraldinsight.
com/doi/10.1108/14777830710778274.
Annual review report. cpcb.nic.in/uploads/hwmd/MSW_AnnualReport_2015-16.pdf.
Cebe, A., Dursun, S., & Mankolli, H. (2013). Hospital solid wastes and its effect on environment.
Journal of International Environmental Application & Science, 8(5), 733–737.
https://siteresources.worldbank.org › Resources › What_a_Waste2012_Final
https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.315.aspx.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/21731
Jalan, R. K., & Srivastava, V. K. (1995). Incineration, land pollution control alternative–design
considerations and its relevance for India. Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, 15(12),
909–913.
Joardar, S. D. (2000). Urban residential solid waste management in India: Issues related to
institutional arrangements. Public works management & policy, 4(4), 319–330.
Joshi, R., & Ahmed, S. (2016). Status and challenges of municipal solid waste management in
India: A review. Cogent Environmental Science, 2, 1139434. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311843.
2016.1139434.
Kansal, A. (2002). Solid waste management strategies for India. Indian Journal of Environmental
Protection, 22(4), 444–448.
Kumar, R., Gupta, A. K., Aggarwal, A. K., & Kumar, A. (2014). A descriptive study on evaluation
of bio-medical waste management in a tertiary care public hospital of North India. Journal of
Environmental Health Science & Engineering, 12, 69.
71
7 Recommendations
Constant and regular awareness sessions need to be conducted to all categories of
staff. Reduce, reuse and recycle are also a form of patriotism, because we are helping
our country to save money and reduce our dependence on other countries for raw
materials.
Every single human being living on this planet has a part to play in reducing,
reusing and recycling, as well as in protecting this precious world, and making it
greener, less toxic and more inhabitable (Alhumoud and Alhumoud 2007).
Acknowledgements We thank the support of the management, principal and the medical superintendent in performing our study. We acknowledge the support of faculty and post graduates of
hospital administration, nursing superintendent, supervisors and cross section of doctors, staff nurses
and housekeeping supervisors and staff who participated in the study. We acknowledge the assistance and involvement of AGM, maintenance, electrical engineer, biomedical waste asst manager
and we thank the statistician who helped for data analysis for the study.
No conflict of interest between or among authors of the study.
Source of funding: Nil.
References
Ahmadi, M. (2007). Evaluating the performance of 3Rs waste practices: Case study-region one
municipality of Tehran. Advances in Recycling & Waste Management.
Alhumoud, J. M., & Alhumoud, H. M. (2007). An analysis of trends related to hospital solid wastes
management in Kuwait. Management of Environmental Quality. https://www.emeraldinsight.
com/doi/10.1108/14777830710778274.
Annual review report. cpcb.nic.in/uploads/hwmd/MSW_AnnualReport_2015-16.pdf.
Cebe, A., Dursun, S., & Mankolli, H. (2013). Hospital solid wastes and its effect on environment.
Journal of International Environmental Application & Science, 8(5), 733–737.
https://siteresources.worldbank.org › Resources › What_a_Waste2012_Final
https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.315.aspx.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/21731
Jalan, R. K., & Srivastava, V. K. (1995). Incineration, land pollution control alternative–design
considerations and its relevance for India. Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, 15(12),
909–913.
Joardar, S. D. (2000). Urban residential solid waste management in India: Issues related to
institutional arrangements. Public works management & policy, 4(4), 319–330.
Joshi, R., & Ahmed, S. (2016). Status and challenges of municipal solid waste management in
India: A review. Cogent Environmental Science, 2, 1139434. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311843.
2016.1139434.
Kansal, A. (2002). Solid waste management strategies for India. Indian Journal of Environmental
Protection, 22(4), 444–448.
Kumar, R., Gupta, A. K., Aggarwal, A. K., & Kumar, A. (2014). A descriptive study on evaluation
of bio-medical waste management in a tertiary care public hospital of North India. Journal of
Environmental Health Science & Engineering, 12, 69.