India faces growing biomedical waste crisis as coronavirus cases soar

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NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.

Waste pickers like them today face an increasing direct risk from a spike in biomedical waste in India because of the coronavirus outbreak. From almost 609 metric tons of daily biomedical waste generation in 2018, India now generates 710 MT daily, including 101 MT of Covid-related waste. This has brought to fore a chronic failure in India's waste management - poor segregation of waste at Indian households and a lack of enforcement of this practice by urban local bodies. This has resulted in biomedical waste mixing with municipal waste and reaching dump yards and landfills, posing a health risk to an estimated four million waste pickers in India.

A July 27 report from the Environment Pollution Authority said biomedical waste being generated in households presents a"key complication", as urban local bodies and village councils will have to track patients on a real-time basis and set up systems for collection of biomedical waste from individual households.

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