With more and more people changing masks every day, the treatment of masks is also a matter of great concern. What should we do with the discarded masks after a day's trip? How to discard masks scientifically, not because the number of discarded masks has increased. Moreover, the way of treatment should not be considered to have adverse effects on some wild animals.
If in some medical institutions such as health centers, community hospitals, public hospitals, etc. Medical waste has special bins, and used masks can be treated as medical waste, because these medical institutions will treat these medical wastes centrally. If you are at home in a low-risk area, such as Shanghai, you can throw dry garbage into the trash can and remember to wash your hands after handling the mask. If citizens have symptoms such as fever and cough, they should throw their masks into the trash can and wash them with disinfectant. They can also use fresh-keeping bags. Although it can be disinfected at high temperature, if the mask is put into the container for operation, the container will be infected, and incineration is not recommended, which will also pollute the ecological environment. Some netizens suggested cutting it up and throwing it away. The risk of infection still exists.
In some communities, garbage bins for discarded masks have been set up, and unified delivery points have been carried out. At the same time, the environmental protection personnel in the community have been trained to do a good job in the secondary decomposition of discarded masks. There are special vehicles to transport the discarded masks to designated places, and relevant professional institutions destroy them. These recycling bins and vehicles responsible for transshipment are disinfected every day, which reduces the risk of infection of discarded masks.