A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces

Beril Hekimoğlu; Ezgi Akça; Aziz Kemal Konyalıoğlu; Tuğçe Beldek; Ferhan Çebi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90421-0_5

A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces

Beril Hekimoğlu, Ezgi Akça, Aziz Kemal Konyalıoğlu^*, Tuğçe Beldek, Ferhan Çebi

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Department of Management Engineering

Istanbul Technical University

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Abstract

During COVID-19 pandemic, many countries made it compulsory to wear masks or people started using face masks in order to protect themselves from being infected. Masks are the only solution when social distancing is not possible to apply. Thus, millions of masks are used daily in the world. In Turkey, it is compulsory to wear a mask outside of the houses, and waste management systems are not adequate to manage tons of waste masks that are produced at workplaces or houses. Every day, throwing out disposable face masks and contaminated tissues results in massive environmental pollution and a possible danger for people when they are not disposed correctly. In this study, possible solutions to “polluting the environment massively by throwing out disposable face masks and contaminated tissues” during the COVID-19 period are carried out.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digitizing Production Systems - Selected Papers from ISPR 2021
Editors	Numan M. Durakbasa, M. Güneş Gençyılmaz
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	53-64
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030904203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90421-0_5
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	International Symposium for Production Research, ISPR2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 7 Oct 2021 → 9 Oct 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
ISSN (Print)	2195-4356
ISSN (Electronic)	2195-4364

Conference

Conference	International Symposium for Production Research, ISPR2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	7/10/21 → 9/10/21

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© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

COVID-19
Face mask waste
Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
Waste management

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Hekimoğlu, B., Akça, E., Konyalıoğlu, A. K., Beldek, T., & Çebi, F. (2022). A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces. In N. M. Durakbasa, & M. G. Gençyılmaz (Eds.), Digitizing Production Systems - Selected Papers from ISPR 2021 (pp. 53-64). (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90421-0_5

Hekimoğlu, Beril ; Akça, Ezgi ; Konyalıoğlu, Aziz Kemal et al. / A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces. Digitizing Production Systems - Selected Papers from ISPR 2021. editor / Numan M. Durakbasa ; M. Güneş Gençyılmaz. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 53-64 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

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A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces. / Hekimoğlu, Beril; Akça, Ezgi; Konyalıoğlu, Aziz Kemal et al.
Digitizing Production Systems - Selected Papers from ISPR 2021. ed. / Numan M. Durakbasa; M. Güneş Gençyılmaz. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 53-64 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering).

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A Design of Collecting and Processing System of Used Face Masks and Contaminated Tissues During COVID-19 Era in Workplaces

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