Infectious Waste Management Strategy during COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: an Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Sel
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Infectious Waste Management Strategy during COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: an Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Selecting Sustainable Technologies Amine Belhadi
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Sachin S. Kamble2 Syed Abdul Rehman Khan3 Fatima Ezahra Touriki4 Dileep Kumar M.5 ●
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Received: 20 June 2020 / Accepted: 5 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The emerging and underdeveloped countries in Africa face numerous difficulties managing infectious waste during the SARS-CoV-2 disease, known as the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to help decision-makers in African countries to select the best available waste management strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present research undertakes seamless assessment and prioritization of infectious solid waste (SW) and wastewater (WW) treatment technologies based on a criteria system involving four dimensions, i.e., environment-safety, technology, economics, and sociopolitics. A combined approach that integrates the results of life-cycle assessments and life-cycle costs (LCA–LCC), analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and VIKOR method in an interval-valued fuzzy (IVF) environment is proposed. The results reveal that combined incineration and chemical disinfection approach, and combined chlorination and ultraviolet irradiation are the most sustainable technologies for managing infectious SW and WW treatment in the present context. The proposed approach, alongside the findings of the study, constitutes a reference to devise urgent planning for contagious waste management in African countries as well as developing countries worldwide. Keywords COVID-19 Municipal waste management Waste water AHP–VIKOR Interval-valued fuzzy Solid waste ●
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Introduction The new SARS-CoV-2 disease (commonly known as COVID-19) has induced a historical impact in most countries. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the virus has distressed almost all countries causing infection to several million and claiming thousands of lives according to WHO (2020a, b). The governments worldwide have implemented several measures to mitigate the propagation of the virus,
* Amine Belhadi [email protected] 1
Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
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EDHEC Business School, Roubaix, France
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School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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ENSA-Safi, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
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Gopal Narayan Singh University, Jamuhar, India
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including personal protective equipment, social distancing, and lockdown (Klemeš et al. 2020). The transmission behavior of SARS-CoV-2 is creating significant challenges for services related to solid waste (SW) and wastewater (WW) management. Aerosols, plastics, oral/fecal, and inanimate surfaces (fomites) are identified as the transmission medium for the virus (Nghiem et al. 2020). The multiple modes of transmission emphasize implementing a safety management system to interrupt the potential propagation of COVID-19 through SW and WW. The in
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