Government Signals Concern Over Infectious Waste Management

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by Natthaphon Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The government has expressed concern over the management of infectious waste from items associated with COVID-19 prevention. Relevant agencies are urged to properly and efficiently dispose of waste in order to ensure public safety.

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said he was concerned about the management of waste contaminated with nasal mucus, sputum, saliva and blood. Face masks and antigen test kits have contributed significantly to increasing amounts of infectious waste.

 

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Total COVID cases meanwhile remain high, with authorities warning that infectious waste from patients cannot be mixed with other forms of waste, as this risks spreading the infection to garbage handlers. The prime minister has instructed responsible agencies to maintain efficient operations.

 

Gen Prayut also asked the Ministry of Health to inform COVID patients undergoing home isolation about waste sorting procedures. Each bag containing infectious waste should be clearly marked so garbage handlers are able to take the necessary precautions.

 

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[daveAustin]

Ban masks. 

[vandeventer]

Just put it all on a large ship and send it to China with a note There's more to come.

[Classic Ray]

Maybe this is fallout from the scandal of the washing and exporting of pre used and contaminated rubber gloves.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The government has expressed concern over the management of infectious waste from items associated with COVID-19 prevention. Relevant agencies are urged to properly and efficiently dispose of waste in order to ensure public safety.

Why just infectious waste, what about the tons of stinking daily waste that lines every street.

Thailand doesn't manage waste, it buries it like everything else.

[metisdead]

A post with a miss-spelling of the PM's in a trolling nature has been removed.  Please use the correct spelling of people's names when posting. 

[Caldera]

You don't hear much of this concern from other countries. Maybe because the "infectious waste" doesn't stay infectious for a long time and in reality infects almost nobody! The PM still doesn't seem to have a good understanding of how Covid spreads, two years in.

[MrJ2U]

Baloney. 

 

Most Isaan villages have opened air dumps  and burn plastics and other carcinogenic garbage everyday. 

 

It's like little India in the NorthEast. 

[Cake Monster]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Total COVID cases meanwhile remain high, with authorities warning that infectious waste from patients cannot be mixed with other forms of waste, as this risks spreading the infection to garbage handlers. The prime minister has instructed responsible agencies to maintain efficient operations.

If the Infected Waste cannot be mixed with other Waste, where are all the Toxic waste Bins for the correct and safe disposal.

There are non at all near where I live, and I would suspect that many a KM would need to be travelled to find a single one..

[Will B Good]

Government Signals Concern Over Infectious Waste Management.........that would be better

[Tropicalevo]

3 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Baloney. 

 

Most Isaan villages have opened air dumps  and burn plastics and other carcinogenic garbage everyday. 

 

It's like little India in the NorthEast. 

I think that it is pretty much like that all over rural and semi rural Thailand.

It certainly happens a lot here on Samui.

[MrJ2U]

2 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

There are non at all near where I live

Even where there are people still mix them up. 

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Baloney. 

 

Most Isaan villages have opened air dumps  and burn plastics and other carcinogenic garbage everyday. 

 

It's like little India in the NorthEast. 

There is no regular rubbish collection in many areas so burning it all is commonplace..... 

[MrJ2U]

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

There is no regular rubbish collection in many areas so burning it all is commonplace..... 

Despite having 2,000,000 baht garbage truck the village elders we're pocketing the money distributed for garage collection and just dumping the waist inon some government property in the forest for the last 10 years. 

 

 

We threatened legal action.

 

After two years of wrangling they finally closed the dump.