When you are in a healthcare facility, dispose of your mask directly into a medical waste bag; in your daily life, if you don't have symptoms, you can dispose of your mask in a Hazardous Waste bin. Hazardous waste" bucket, if suspected symptoms or contact with such people, you can seal the mask with a plastic bag, etc. and throw it into the garbage can?
While the masks won't degrade in the short term, you can give nature and critters a "clean" place to live by properly discarding used masks. In addition to masks, there are plastic bags, plastic bottles and other non-degradable solid waste in the harm to nature. The original sin against nature is not the masks, plastic bags and bottles, but the human beings who throw them away.
We live in this beautiful planet, we should make dedication to it, do not harm it. So when faced with masks and plastic products, it is the right thing for everyone to do to dispose them properly and protect the natural environment.?
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China from various aspects to ensure the safe disposal of urban and rural discarded masks:
Currently, around the world has been from a variety of aspects to ensure that urban and rural discarded masks are safely disposed of, a number of provinces and municipalities in the form of documents, notices and other forms of disposal of discarded masks to Regulate. Chongqing, Shandong, Liaoning and other relevant departments issued a standardized collection and disposal of discarded masks notice; Nanjing, Jiangsu Province has developed a relevant work program.
Some related enterprises have also formulated norms, such as China Energy Conservation subordinate Chengdu Company formulated and released the "waste masks transport trucks fell into the garbage bin of the accident plan", Nanjing Jiangnan domestic waste incineration plant formulated and implemented the "waste masks emergency reception and disposal program"...... content involves the community to collect and store, the agency collection and transportation and processing, Social publicity and education, etc., to provide a basis for carrying out the disposal of waste masks.
The implementation of a full chain of health and safety guarantees for the disposal of discarded masks has become a local **** knowledge. In the collection stage, all over the urban and rural residents of the daily generation of waste masks, more than to take the classification of special collection. Jiangxi Nanfeng county-wide put 512 waste masks special collection barrels, after the collection of special arrangements for disinfection, and then unified harmless treatment to avoid secondary pollution. The main city of Chongqing has basically realized the full coverage of waste masks in residential areas dedicated garbage cans set up, but also provides for medical institutions and the surrounding waste masks, according to the norms of the management of medical waste using a special medical waste containers for collection.
In the collection and transportation stage, around more than by the garbage removal unit and personnel to take strict disinfection, special car cleaning, direct transport treatment places, "day production and cleaning" and other measures.