Hazardous Waste Management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala, Anambra State

Authors

  • N.C Mmonwuba Department Civil Engineering, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria
  • Anene Walter Department Civil Engineering, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria
  • Onyiriofor Chibuike Maxwell Department Civil Engineering, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria
  • Adahor Lucky Department of Civil Engineering, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54536/ajise.v2i1.1324

Keywords:

Toxicity, Hazardous, Waste, Waste Management

Abstract

Hazardous waste products are drugs that are now not highly required and thus have no actual or customer value at an allocated time or location. Countless raw materials used or manufactured in metabolic pathways must have hazardous qualities. The important hazardous waste publications usually involve heavy industry, physician, and residential squanders, and actually happen in stable, solvent, or vapor. These waste products seem to be consolidated and/or just have inherent or inherent physiochemical individuality of cytotoxic activity, combustible material, standard test, and reactions. Managing hazardous wastes is always of incredible symbolic importance to people, socio, environmental, and economic health conditions. Hazardous wastewater reuse process in the maternity ward may not be in concurrence with the top global methodologies. Many harmful byproducts are tossed carelessly, which encompasses hazop to the climate and confronted public health troubles. This investigation will inform the general public, vested interests in environment protection, student academic, and governmental policy producers on the concerns of waste disposal focusing on health facilities with a view to assessing best practices to fight the scourge linked to poor hazardous waste management. But progress remains a challenging task, such there still is a lack of available effective steps to still be chosen to take towards workable practices to the issues.

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Published

2023-04-07

How to Cite

Mmonwuba, N. C., Walter, A., Onyiriofor, C. M., & Lucky, A. (2023). Hazardous Waste Management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala, Anambra State. American Journal of Innovation in Science and Engineering, 2(1), 106–110. https://doi.org/10.54536/ajise.v2i1.1324