1. The creation and monitoring of a network for solid healthcare waste management
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Dany Obeid, Fady Moujaes, Dominique Salameh, Cédric Brandam, Olivia Maamari, Robert Keyrouz, Michèle Kosremelli Asmar, Roger Lteif, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Lebanese University - LU (LEBANON), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), arcenciel (LEBANON), Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth - USJ (LEBANON), Laboratoire de Génie Chimique - LGC (Toulouse, France), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Faculty of Engineering [Lebanese University] (ULFG), Lebanese University [Beirut] (LU), Laboratoire de Génie Chimique (LGC), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
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Strategic plan ,Engineering ,Environmental Engineering ,Quality management ,Process (engineering) ,Network ,Context (language use) ,12. Responsible consumption ,11. Sustainability ,Health care ,Génie chimique ,[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering ,Génie des procédés ,Waste Management and Disposal ,Sustainable development ,Strategic planning ,Waste management ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,business.industry ,Waste minimisation ,Management ,3. Good health ,Treatment ,HCW ,Fuel efficiency ,Healthcare waste ,business - Abstract
International audience; Healthcare waste mismanagement constitutes a serious environmental and sanitary problem, especially in developing countries. This article describes the strategy and the methodology of the implementation of a national network for healthcare waste management by a non-profit organisation in Lebanon, taking into consideration environmental, social and economic issues. It presents a holistic description of the main aspects of this crucial sustainable development topic: the elaboration of the strategy and the selection of the optimal treatment technique based on an analysis of the context; the training on waste minimisation and waste management issues inside hospitals; the waste transportation and treatment procedures; the quality management of the process; the evaluation and the monitoring of the produced quantities and the established system; the optimisation of sterilisation parameters and process in order to reduce sterilisation time and fuel consumption.
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- 2015
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