Table 2.

Definition of sub-criteria.

Id	Criteria	Definition	Type
C1	The price of the treatment	It represents the monetary value of carrying out a particular treatment	Cost
C2	Operating and maintenance costs	It represents the value of the costs of implementing and maintaining an individual treatment	Cost
C3	Waste disposal costs	It represents the value of costs related to the disposal of waste treated with a particular treatment	Cost
C4	Environmental impact	It implies how a particular treatment affects the environment and how waste treated with that treatment affects the environment	Cost
C5	Energy consumption	It represents the amount of energy expended in carrying out the treatment and disposing of the waste with that treatment	Cost
C6	Environmental acceptability	It implies how much of which treatment is accepted for the environment during the treatment and when disposing of the treated waste	Benefit
C7	Efficacy of treatment	It represents the extent to which a particular treatment is good for HCW management	Benefit
C8	Level of automation	It represents the level to which a particular treatment is automated	Benefit
C9	Treatment capacities	It represents the capacity of individual treatments	Benefit
C10	Public acceptance	It implies how the public accepts certain treatments and waste treated with that treatment	Benefit
C11	Safety of treatment	It represents the level of safety of individual treatments and disposal of treated waste	Benefit
C12	Health and safety risks	It implies the impact on the health of the workers who manage the tools and the risk of disposing of the treated waste	Cost