Medical Waste Management by The Photocatalysis Approach -A Comprehensive Review
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Biomedical waste handling and disposal can be challenging due to its nature and the potential presence of harmful organic compounds. This paper talks about the comprehensive review of the medical waste, types of medical waste, and their management strategies. Degradation of medical waste by using the advanced photocatalysis gained a lot of prominence during the last few years. Several nano structured semiconductor materials such as Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide, Cadmium sulphide, Bismuth Vanadate and Tungsten Oxide are showing the photosensitive properties. These materials can be explored for the photo degradation of medical waste with the mechanism of photocatalysis.
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