How To Deal With Rubbish Like Waste Masks? Authoritative Guidance Came.

With the public's attention to the prevention and control of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus infection, more and more people use masks when they go out. How to deal with a large number of respirators after use has become one of the most concerns of the general public. Recently, the comprehensive administrative law enforcement bureau of Shaoxing issued the "guiding opinions on the harmless disposal of domestic waste during the period of a new coronavirus infection", calling for strengthening the classification, delivery, collection, transportation and disposal of domestic waste during the epidemic period, and strictly prohibiting the incorporation of medical garbage into the domestic waste disposal system to prevent the two pollution.

How to throw waste masks?

"During the epidemic prevention and control period, the domestic waste of ordinary residential areas will be put into the category according to the classification standard. Among them, the waste masks of the residents need to be put into other garbage cans (ash barrels). Discarded respirators, such as those caused by general cold or physical discomfort, must be sealed with sealed bags or fresh-keeping bags and put into other trash cans. "The city appearance and environmental hygiene management service center responsible person said.

"Citizens in non segregated areas should fold up the stripes and bind them with the ear cord before discarding the masks. When the mask is folded, the mouth and nose should be exposed. Disinfectant (spray 75% alcohol, 84 disinfectant water) should be sterilized and placed in a sealed plastic bag. "The city's CDC professionals say that many people take the masks to pieces and discard them, which is not advisable, because there is still a great risk of infection in the process of shredding.

In the interview, reporters found that many communities in Yuecheng district set up special trash cans for waste masks, and some community residents would throw waste masks into harmful trash cans (red barrels). In this regard, the Yuecheng comprehensive administrative law enforcement bureau garbage sorting office responsible person said, masks as a small part of domestic waste, do not advocate the establishment of special barrels in residential areas (non isolated areas); And it is also wrong to throw the mask into the red bucket, because the daily life rubbish such as waste masks needs to be cleared once a day. If the citizens throw them into the harmful trash cans (red barrels), they can not achieve this goal.

It is understood that the focus of epidemic prevention and control in residential areas is the elimination work. There were 2-3 times of daily disinfection of collection containers and collection vehicles in the urban areas, and the effective chlorine was used to disinfect the 500-1000mg/L chlorine containing disinfectant to ensure the health and safety of the residents.

Where is the trash in the isolation area?

Yesterday, reporters visited Yuecheng District, a number of residential areas found that garbage collection and transportation personnel during the operation have strengthened safety protection, and do a good job in collecting containers for cleaning and disinfection work. "Domestic waste generated during the epidemic should be cleared in time, minimizing transfer links to achieve daily production of Nissan. The operators use special vehicles to carry out the whole closed transportation of domestic waste, and strictly prohibit throwing drip and drain to prevent the two pollution and spread of the epidemic. "Yue city environmental group responsible person told reporters.  

For centralized domestic segregation of dangerous domestic waste at medical observation points, the transport personnel will wear protective clothing under the guidance of health and epidemic prevention departments for special transportation. At present, the dangerous domestic waste in Yuecheng district and Keqiao district is provided by Shaoxing Huaxin Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.

The dangerous domestic waste produced by the centralized (home) isolation medical observation point will be incinerated by the incineration plant. "In the afternoon of January 28th, the renewable energy incineration plant in Binhai New Area began to receive hazardous domestic waste. A total of 70 bags (1.68 tons) of hazardous domestic waste were received on that day. According to the relevant person in charge of the city appearance and environmental sanitation management service center, at present, the hazardous domestic waste produced in other areas is disposed of by the Shaoxing renewable energy company in addition to the hazardous waste produced in Zhuji by the "eight party thermal power" incineration disposal.