Keep used masks for 72 hours: TNPCB

Keep used masks for 72 hours: TNPCB

‘Biomedical waste should be collected separately in yellow bags’

10/05/2020, STAFF REPORTER

Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has urged people to keep the used masks and gloves for a minimum of 72 hours in a bag and dispose it.

In a press release, it said that used masks and gloves generated from home quarantine or other households should be kept in paper bag for a minimum of 72 hours prior to disposal of the same as general waste.

It also asked the people to cut the masks before disposing it so that reuse could be prevented.

The release said that biomedical waste generated from quarantine centres or camps should be collected separately in yellow coloured bags provided by urban local bodies.

The bags should be handed over to the authorised waste collection workers at doorsteps engaged by local bodies, the press release added.