制药废物管理系统 - - 当前的技术是否可持续,环保和循环? 一个审查审查
Binaya Sapkota1, Agamuthu Pariatamby1
1Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University, 5 Jalan University, 47500 Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
|June 7, 2023
概括
药品废物 (PW) 的正确处置至关重要. 对于固体PW来说,焚烧是可持续的,而对于液体PW来说,废水处理厂 (WWTP) 是环保的,为可持续废物管理提供了一份指南.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 绿色化学 绿色化学
背景情况:
- 制药废弃物 (PW) 的处置是一个重要的环境和公共卫生问题,目前的方法缺乏客观的可持续性评估.
- 现有的污染,未使用或过期 (CUE) 药物的处置技术,包括焚烧,封装和填埋,具有不同的环境影响和成本影响.
结论:
- 需要客观的,基于证据的药物废物管理策略,根据特定的剂量形式和危险概况量身定制.
- 整合诸如药品回收计划,生态药品警,扩大生产者责任和生命周期分析等方法可以提高制药废物模型的可持续性和循环性.
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