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Medical waste: Current challenges and future opportunities for sustainable management

Narendra Singha State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, ChinaView further author information
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Oladele A. Ogunseitanb Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, California, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-6219View further author information
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Pages 2000-2022 | Published online: 10 Feb 2021

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