MOSCOW, may 12 — RIA Novosti. Environmentalists have proposed to create in Russia a Federal programme for the installation of special containers for disposal of medical masks and gloves, a letter was sent to the Minister of natural resources Dmitry Kobylkin signed by a member of the Central Council of all-Russian society of nature protection of Timur Usmanov.
a copy of the letter will also be sent to the mayor of Moscow, first Deputy Chairman of the coordination Council under the government of the Russian Federation on combating the spread of novel coronavirus infection Sergei Sobyanin.
“we Ask You to consider as a priority the possibility of realization of the Federal project for the installation of specialized containers for the disposal of PPE (disposable medical devices, gloves),” — said in a letter (is available to RIA Novosti).
the document notes that such practices during the pandemic spread in Thailand and Australia. Additionally, a pilot project launched in the Irkutsk region, where disposal containers disposable protection means is installed in four cities.
“we Believe that the implementation of the program provides for the direct participation of the regional governments, and the number of boxes can be quoted in the calculation as to the number of inhabitants in each settlement of the region, and the rates of incidence of COVID-19 or introduce restrictive measures. The information on the locations of such containers should be presented for available interactive map and included in the handout and reference materials about the situation with coronavirus in each subject of the Russian Federation,” write the authors.
Previously, the state Duma Committee on ecology and environment has asked the Ministry of health and the CPS to study the issue of decontamination of medical masks used in the composition of household waste, the corresponding letter to the head of the Committee Vladimir burmatov sent to the Minister of health of Michael Murashko, head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.
currently, However, due to the high demand for such medical device they are massively discarded after use in the home and get into normal rubbish bins, rubbish chutes and containers, and then sent to landfills.
