The world’s population is constantly growing, and its rate of waste production is also increasing. Hospitals that offer preventive, palliative, and curative services to populations, resulting in an increase in the volume of biomedical waste resulting from these services are no exception.
Between 10% and 25% of the mass of these wastes carries an infectious risk to individuals and contributes to polluting the natural environment. On the other hand, 75 to 90% of this biomedical waste comes from administrative services, cleaning and maintenance of health services premises. It is important that these wastes are treated appropriately to mitigate the associated risks of disease and pollution.
Therefore, the problem is the selection of a treatment process that meets these stated expectations. The use of satisfaction analysis should make it possible to integrate systemic factors (economic, environmental, social, technical) and combine them with decision factors (assessment criteria, importance and rating of criteria) to choose the best possible solution. By doing so, the potential biases of decision makers could be better controlled in this type of decision-making process.
The exploitation of the case under study, which shows various results according to the simulations carried out, makes it possible to assess the role of the economic factor as well as the possibility of setting an environmental weight that would influence this type of decisionmaking process. These are outcomes that could help improve current and future decision-making.
| Date | 24 Apr 2022 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Robert Hausler (Supervisor) |
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Tchoungui, S. I. (Author),
Hausler (Supervisor),
24 Apr 2022Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Environmental Engineering