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A comprehensive guide to emergency medical waste disposal and management practices in China.
This handbook offers a systematic introduction to the key aspects of medical waste management, from generation and collection to treatment and disposal. It emphasizes technologies and management essentials for disease and environmental pollution prevention. Designed for facilities, institutions, supervisors, and environmental volunteers, it provides operational guidelines for safe and reliable waste disposal.
Learn about medical waste classification, packaging, transportation, and emergency disposal during pandemics. Discover China's progress in waste disposal systems since SARS, including over 30 related laws and regulations. This book shares China's experiences and practices in medical waste disposal, offering valuable insights for countries worldwide.
A comprehensive guide to emergency medical waste disposal and management practices in China.
This handbook offers a systematic introduction to the key aspects of medical waste management, from generation and collection to treatment and disposal. It emphasizes technologies and management essentia...
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Guo Chunxia, has been engaged in solid waste management in the Department of Ecology and Environment of Henan Province since 1999. She is currently the director and senior engineering professor at the Henan Provincial Solid Waste and Chemical Technology Management Center. The title, The Solid Waste Environmental Management Series with her as the major author, has been awarded with the Excellent Textbook of the Chinese Ministry of EcHenan Solid Waste Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations, Guidelines for Henan Hazardous Waste Standardized Management and Guidelines for Technical Review of Henan Hazardous Waste Business Certificate, of The Ecology and Environment and the First Prize of Henan Provincial level for Popularization of Science. She has also authored Handbook on Hazardous Waste Management in Key Industries and participated as the project manager in the Global Environment Facility's Provincial Demonstration Project on Comprehensive Management and Cooperative Disposal of Medical Wastes and the Henan Solid Waste Management Capacity Building Project, as well as led the establishment of a Hazardous Waste Management Platform, and the drafting of Henan Solid Waste Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations, Guidelines for Henan Hazardous Waste Standardized Management and Guidelines for Technical Review of Henan Hazardous Waste Business Certificate. Chen Yang, professor at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences with a focus on technological R&D, management system building and industry development of the needs of hazardous and medical waste management and disposal in China. With experience presiding over more than 30 national key programs funded by Chinese Ministry of Ecology Environment, Ministry of Sciences and technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc., he is the owner of more than 30 patents, and author of 8 monographs and more than 60 papers as well as is the winner of 8 ministerial science and technology awards. Since the SARS outbreak in 2003, he has been involved in the implementation and Development of National Standard and technology management system for hazardous waste and medical waste management and disposal in China and as a member of the core consultant group, Environmentally Sustainable Management of Medical Wastes in China funded by GEF from 2005 to 2008, he has supported Chinese sustainable management of medical waste. He has also participated in the drafting of more than 20 related Chinese national technical policies, with standards and specifications over 20 years. Additionally, he participated in the drafting of Technical Guidelines on the Emergency Disposal of Medical Wastes from the Treatment of 2019-nCov (On Trial) during novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. Furthermore, as editor in chief, he compiled and published the book of Optimal Disposal Technology and Application of Medical Waste that served as a summary of the development and experience of medical waste management and disposal in China during SARS outbreak in 2003.
Guo Chunxia, has been engaged in solid waste management in the Department of Ecology and Environment of Henan Province since 1999. She is currently the director and senior engineering professor at the Henan Provincial Solid Waste and Chemical Technology Management Center. The title, The Solid Was...
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