How to Deal with Used Masks?
Healthy people wearing masks for more than 4 hours will get their masks wet or dirty with secretions and their protective performance will decline. The mask should be replaced immediately after it is contaminated. The masks used by medical staff should be removed and disposed of safely in time when leaving the risk area. Wash hands immediately after taking off the mask.
1. In medical institutions, discarded masks should be directly put into medical waste garbage bags for collection and disposal as medical waste.
2. For ordinary people, daily use of masks, according to the requirements of household garbage classification, can be directly thrown into the bin "other garbage", as recycling and sorting of these masks are strictly prohibited.
3. For people with fever, cough, expectoration and sneezing symptoms, or people who have come into contact with such people, the discarded mask should be thrown into a garbage bag, and then 5% 84 disinfectant solution is used in a ratio of 1:99, sprinkled on the mask for disinfection. If there is no disinfectant, use a sealed bag or fresh-keeping bag, seal the discarded mask and throw it into the bin written "other garbage".
4. For suspected patients and their nursing staff, the used masks should be collected and disposed of as infectious medical waste during treatment or investigation.