Overuse of gloves and 'moon suits' and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes have caused a glut of COVID-19 waste worldwide.
The World Health Organization says overuse of gloves, “moon suits” and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of healthcare waste worldwide.has strained waste management systems and is threatening both health and the environment, pointing to a “dire need” to improve those systems and get a response from both governments and people.
“Part of the message for the public is to become more of a conscious consumer,” said Dr. Margaret Montgomery, technical officer of WHO’s water, sanitation, hygiene and health unit. “In terms of the volume, it’s enormous.” “We find that people are wearing excessive PPE,” Montgomery said, referring to personal protective equipment.The agency says most of the roughly 87,000 tons of such equipment — including what she called “moon suits” and gloves — obtained from March 2020 to November 2021 to battle COVID-19 has ended up as waste. More than 8 billion doses of vaccine administered globally have produced 143 tons of extra waste in terms of syringes, needles and safety boxes.
“It is absolutely vital to provide health workers with the right ,” Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, said in
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