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The domain of waste management and pollution control is today undergoing rapid and drastic changes. Human civilization and human scientific endeavor are moving toward a newer era of scientific regeneration. In the similar manner, biomedical engineering is surpassing visionary scientific frontiers. Solid waste management and biomedical engineering are the forerunners toward scientific regeneration and deep scientific vision. The present state of waste management is deeply challenged and is replete with scientific imagination. Industrial pollution today is the need of the hour. In this treatise, the authors deeply discussed the scientific success, the vast scientific potential, and the vision to move forward in the field of biomedical waste management. Human scientific research pursuit in waste management today needs to be re-envisioned and redefined. The challenge and the vision of this treatise are immense and far-reaching. The authors also in this well-researched treatise successfully elucidate the need for sustainable development in present-day human civilization. Waste management and environmental sustainability are the challenges of environmental engineering science today. This treatise opens up a new chapter in human scientific research pursuit in biomedical sciences and engineering with the sole aim and objective toward the furtherance of engineering science. Technological validation and the vast scientific ingenuity in the field of waste management are the other hallmarks of this treatise. The authors pointedly focus on the human scientific ingenuity and deep profundity in the field of biomedical engineering and waste management. Environmental sustainability is another vast area of research pursuit in this widely researched treatise.
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Palit, S., Hussain, C.M. (2019). Sustainable Biomedical Waste Management. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73645-7_123
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