what special measures to be taken in order to dispose of the bio-medical waste( masks ,PPE kits etc) that are being used during the treatment of COVID-19 patient ?
Thankk u so much Aditi for this question. I think that incineration will be the better option to be adopted in order to dispose the biomedical wastes evolved after the treatment of covid patients. At high temperatre, the protein segment of the active virus gets denatured, thus resulting into inactiveness of the virus.
I agree with suggestion by John H Lange , and in addition to what Sarah Ozanova has written here, I can suggest to check also reports showing contamination in surrounding of medical waste incinerators e.g. in Africa Technical Report Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Eggs: Report from Africa
or India:
Technical Report Contamination of chicken eggs near the Queen Mary's Hospital...
or even Czech Republic, although these are rather older data
Technical Report CEE Waste Incineration Hot Spots Report: Lysá nad Labem, Haz...