Department of Environmental Engineering, Anadolu University, Faculty of Engineering, Eskisehir, Turkey.
Waste Manag Res. 2013 Feb;31(2):141-9. doi: 10.1177/0734242X12471578. Epub 2013 Jan 11.
Healthcare waste should be managed carefully because of infected, pathological, etc. content especially in developing countries. Applied management systems must be the most appropriate solution from a technical, environmental, economic and social point of view. The main objective of this study was to analyse the current status of healthcare waste management in Turkey, and to investigate the most appropriate treatment/disposal option by using different decision-making techniques. For this purpose, five different healthcare waste treatment/disposal alternatives including incineration, microwaving, on-site sterilization, off-site sterilization and landfill were evaluated according to two multi-criteria decision-making techniques: analytic network process (ANP) and ELECTRE. In this context, benefits, costs and risks for the alternatives were taken into consideration. Furthermore, the prioritization and ranking of the alternatives were determined and compared for both methods. According to the comparisons, the off-site sterilization technique was found to be the most appropriate solution in both cases.
医疗废物因其具有感染性、病理性等特性，需要谨慎处理，尤其是在发展中国家。应用管理系统必须从技术、环境、经济和社会角度来看是最合适的解决方案。本研究的主要目的是分析土耳其的医疗废物管理现状，并通过使用不同的决策技术来研究最合适的处理/处置方案。为此，根据两种多准则决策技术：网络分析法（ANP）和 ELECTRE，评估了包括焚烧、微波处理、现场消毒、异地消毒和垃圾填埋在内的 5 种不同的医疗废物处理/处置方法。在这方面，考虑了替代方案的收益、成本和风险。此外，还确定了替代方案的优先级，并对两种方法进行了比较。根据比较结果，在这两种情况下，异地消毒技术被认为是最合适的解决方案。
