New Beijing News Express (Reporter Ma Jinqian) wearing epidemic protection with goggles, masks and disposable gloves, pulling on the new configuration of the yellow medical waste special garbage cans, February 3 at 9 o'clock, Beijing Zhongguancun street sanitation workers Chen Yanqing and his colleagues began the district waste masks fixed-point recycling.
Discarded masks are handled differently depending on the region and the scene of use. Reporter tracking Zhongguancun street waste masks recycling process found that the Zhongguancun street set up a special waste masks recycling office, in the recycling process, the waste masks and garbage cans for a number of disinfection to prevent waste masks caused by the "secondary pollution".
The garbage cans for recycling discarded masks are set up in Shuangyushu Dongli South Community. Xinjing Daily reporter Li Kaixiang photo
Set up a special trash can, every three days centralized collection and processing
Today is the second time the street centralized collection and processing of discarded masks. In order to prevent discarded masks "secondary pollution", January 29, Zhongguancun street in the area set up 40 discarded masks recycling office. Distributed in the street near 30 community neighborhood committees, while in supermarkets, shopping malls and other public **** area is also set. Every three days, to centralize the collection and processing.
Chen Yanqing's sanitation enterprise to undertake the Zhongguancun street cleaning and extermination work. In accordance with the unified requirements of the street, gloves to wear two layers, the inside is a disposable PVC medical gloves, the outside is pure rubber industrial gloves, two layers of gloves are required to be used once.
The cleaning staff, in groups of three to four, collected discarded masks from the street recycling office in three groups. Chen Yanqing and two colleagues riding a hazardous waste transfer vehicle, a high-pressure cleaning and disinfection vehicle first came to the Dongli South Community Service Station. In front of the service station, two red garbage cans are particularly conspicuous, with the words "discarded masks" affixed to them. At the same time, there is a reminder on the garbage cans slogan - "masks only in not inside or have a virus Specialized regular cleanup Please do not move".
Before collecting discarded masks, the first thing to do is to do the first disinfection of the garbage can and the masks in it. After guidance, chlorine dioxide disinfectant from the daily 1:150 concentration ratio up to 1:100. staff, two buckets of 5L disinfectant water, a day can basically be used up. In order to prevent the disinfectant droplets into the eyes, one of the three people wearing goggles on the head, specifically responsible for spraying work.
At the end of the spraying, Chen Yanqing and another colleague used a pick-up clip to remove the masks from the garbage cans, put them into their own medical waste bags, tie them tightly with leather straps, and put them into the garbage cans on the garbage trucks dedicated to medical waste.
Cleaning staff sterilize the waste mask recycling bin. Xinjing Newspaper reporter Li Kaixiang photo
The number of discarded masks is growing fast, and the phenomenon of mixed throwing still exists
The reporter noticed that in the garbage clipped out of the special garbage cans for discarded masks, there are also non-specified discarded items, such as courier bags and toilet paper. "This is inevitable." Staff said masks can also be found in general household garbage cans.
Because waste mask recycling offices are generally set up in more densely trafficked locations, the collection of masks is followed by spray disinfection by high-pressure cleaning trucks in a larger area around them.
Even on days when masks are not collected, cleaning staff will disinfect the waste mask garbage cans once a day. The collected masks are transferred to Zhongguancun Hospital, affixed with a name strip of medical waste, indicating the unit, time, weight and type, and Chen Yanqing, as the staff member in charge, signs his name, disinfects them again, and deposits them in the hospital's hazardous-waste storage room, where they are uniformly disposed of as medical waste in accordance with the requirements of the street.
January 31, the street carried out the first mask recycling, 40 discarded masks recycling office after more than a day of centralized recycling and disinfection work,*** collection of discarded masks more than 70. "Although today's mask collection and elimination work will not end until 11 p.m., but in some neighborhood committees in front of the door, a trash can collected more than 90 masks." A staff member told reporters.
Cao Hongli, secretary of the party branch of the Dongli South Community, said that after the street issued the notice, it was notified to 1,179 residents of 12 buildings in the district one after another through the community's WeChat group, the public number, and the publicity column.
Zhongguancun Hospital, cleaning staff are filling out the "community mask recycling form". New Beijing News reporter Li Kaixiang photo
Experts: masks before discarding recommended wrapped in plastic bags, do not advocate tearing or cutting
Immunology experts, the disposal of discarded masks mainly depends on the region and the use of the scene. In Hubei Wuhan and other infected areas of residents of the mask, because of the number of local infected people, need to have a centralized collection and processing arrangements. Similarly areas with high risk of viral infection such as hospitals should be collected and disposed of as medical waste.
The average resident is advised to use plastic bags to contain the masks at the end of their use and then just throw them away. "It's not that all masks have the new coronavirus, but there are a lot of microorganisms, viruses and bacteria from used masks, so it's better to wrap them up and throw them away, which is better for the surrounding environment." It said.
Some residents in order to prevent the discarded masks are picked up and used twice, choose to tear or cut the mask before discarding. To address this situation, the expert suggested that the public try not to touch used masks. "Personally, I don't really advocate tearing masks with your bare hands because they are dirtier on top." It said, also does not advocate the use of the mask to cut up, if you do want to destroy the discarded mask, after the end of the attention to wash their hands or give the tool disinfection.