Solar Based Bio-Medical Waste Treatment: A Patent Overview

The sudden outbreak of pandemic condition, increasing growth of technologies in the medical field and rise in overall population leads to a cause of a tremendous amount of bio-medical waste generation. Managing and disposing such wastes with the conventional fossil fuel and electricity source results in the emissions of hazardous gases. Additionally, the higher initial and ongoing costs associated with these waste disposal techniques make it more difficult for the underdeveloped and developing nations to involve in the disposal process. As a result, numerous researchers are developing the innovative methods in disposing the waste using renewable energy sources, especially solar energy. An overview of patents pertaining to the product and method of biomedical waste disposal are provided in this article. The patent search using the keywords, “solar” and “medical waste” in the Google Patents database is conducted; merely 72 out of 536 patent applications that are closely associated with the solar-powered disposal of biomedical waste are considered for study.