COVID-19 Webinar series on Medical Waste Management

REGISTER for the webinar series organised by UNEP's Crisis Managment Branch on the topic of Medical waste managment.

The first training addresses: Effective Management Practices for COVID-19 related Healthcare Waste

WHEN: April 28 at 15:00 CEST

Registration link: http://bit.ly/unepcovidwaste 

Good governance and policy-making responsibility play an important role throughout the emergency management cycle – from preparedness and readiness to response to eventual evidence-based recovery from COVID-19. Proper management of healthcare waste needs to be based on the waste hierarchy/3R principles and consider integrated and/or holistic management, starting from source segregation, storage, collection/transport, treatment and final disposal. Although most governments have made some efforts to improve the situation, findings show they are inadequate to manage even the healthcare waste that is generated in normal times.

See UNEP's "Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: from response to recovery"  and table on page 10 for some more information on the topic.

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This is one of 3 technical assistance training sessions on the challenges and lessons learned on effective approaches towards managing medical waste. The other two are

On 17 June: COVID-19 Related Wastes and the Informal Waste Recycling Sector  

On 19 August: Appropriate Technologies to Address COVID-19 related Healthcare Waste Management