How to deal with medical waste 6 times the surge in medical waste since March?

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Waste masks, protective clothing, large -scale, high -frequency nucleic acid detection ... will produce huge amounts of medical waste. These utensils, as potential secondary infections, will cause harm to the surrounding environment if not disposed of in time. Disposal medical waste has become the last line of defense for preventing and controlling epidemic prevention and control.

Recently, a group of numbers were proposed at the Shanghai Epidemic Press Conference: Since March 1, Shanghai has received 68,500 tons of medical waste, with an average of more than 2 kilograms per resident. More than 1400 tons, 6 times before the epidemic. "

In the context of the prevention and control of the epidemic, medical waste production in various places has increased, bringing challenges to local collection and disposal of medical waste. What is the ability to deal with medical waste in my country? Can they be dealt with effective, timely, and safely? To this end, a reporter from China City Daily launched a report.

In order to do a good job of harmless treatment of immune -related medical waste, the strict medical waste disposal standards in Huainan City, Anhui Province, from the production of medical waste from the entire destruction, processing, and intelligent supervision to ensure that the immune -related medical waste should be collected, Nissan Nissan Riqing. People's pictures

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Medical waste recycling disposal needs to be regulated

"Recently, the Beijing epidemic is serious, and the community I live is temporary controlling management. In the past a week, I found that the yellow bag of medical waste used for nucleic acids was directly piled up by the trash can, and no one was transported and managed." Mr. Yu, Mr. Yu from the East Third Ring area of ​​Chaoyang District, Beijing, reported to reporters that due to large -scale nucleic acid testing, medical waste in many communities could not be collected in time, causing hidden safety hazards in residential living areas.

On social platforms, the reporter searched for "medical waste" related information. Many netizens and Mr. Yu had the same trouble: some "big white" that did not have the in place to be in place arbitrarily discarded the use of protective clothing in the domestic trash bin; the medical waste was pulled up. Set up at the countryside; some normalized nucleic acid testing points are exposed to open -air stack medical waste ...

Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, the environmental protection industry has been challenged from medical waste treatment. Almost every cities -related cities are staged a huge medical waste caused by hospitals, large -scale nucleic acid testing, and square cabins.

According to large -scale screening data, generally 200,000 nucleic acid testing can produce 1 ton of medical waste. Ren Juping, a second -level inspector of the Shanghai Ecological and Environment Bureau, introduced that regarding the detection of nucleic acid, the medical waste generated by each sampling point is collected by the sampling agency and brought back to the medical and health institutions or testing institutions. Transfer to centralized disposal facilities. If the nucleic acid detection positive personnel were found in the community, all their garbage was treated by medical and health institutions in accordance with medical waste.

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How to deal with it safely

If the residents throw the garbage into the trash can, there will be a garbage truck to pull the garbage to the garbage dump, and after classification, incineration or compost treatment. However, the treatment of medical waste is different from ordinary domestic waste. Due to the risk of secondary pollution in medical waste, the processing steps are much more complicated.

As a special type of hazardous waste, medical waste topped the "National Dangerous Waste List" due to its potential infectious infectivity. This means that medical waste and transportation must be closed -loop management to prevent disease transmission.

An immune -related staff told reporters that in order to prevent the weapon from losing the packaging bag, the medical waste will be double -layer packaging before receiving the shipping, and the disposable pressure -resistant hard carton will be packed and sealed. After receiving the transportation, vehicles and personnel will disinfect in the exclusive disinfection area to ensure safety.

The staff responsible for Qingyun Medical waste must be fully armed every day. In addition to protective clothing and masks, they also need to wear double -layer headhots and gloves. It takes about half an hour to wear and take off these protective utensils.

Compared to hazardous waste, the two evil heroes produced after the incineration of medical waste need to be vigilant. In addition, combustion also produces sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, VOCs (volatile organic), etc.

The reporter found that from the statistics of the Shenzhen Zero Waste Environmental Protection Public Welfare Center statistics from 2017-2019 482 medical waste disposal enterprises' illegal records that it exceeded standards, exhaust gas discharge, medical waste, and ash management enterprises and the number of violations and regulations, right The cumulative fines of incineration and disposal enterprises reached 13.565 million yuan.

Some people in the industry mentioned that some companies lack a sense of social responsibility and reduce the technical and emission requirements at the cost of sacrificing the environment. However, it is also necessary to see that frequent violations reflect that the enterprise is difficult to make profits. In the future, policy regulation and industry supervision need to be strengthened. At the same time, enterprises should improve their technological innovation capabilities, promote stability of harmful substances to meet the standards, and reduce violations.

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There are still shortcomings to be supplemented by medical waste receiving

"Each prefecture -level cities have built at least one centralized treatment facility that meets the requirements of operation" and "99%of the dismissed disposal rate of medical waste at or above the county level" is the target of national medical waste construction in the past two years.

It is worth noting that Ren Yong, director of the Department of Solid waste and chemicals of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said recently that about 70 % of the cities (states) and municipalities in the country involved in high -risk areas across the country are In less than 50%, all epidemic medical wastes have achieved Nissan Nissan.

In fact, it is not easy to achieve Nissan Riqing, especially the exertion of medical waste after the outbreak of the epidemic.

At present, there are shortcomings for receiving and transportation in many places in my country. To this end, the local area proposes to build a medical waste collection and transfer disposal system by the end of June 2022. Among them, the setting of temporary storage points is a more convenient method.To do this, who comes out of the cost of medical waste?

According to the "Government Pricing Business Services Charging Catalog List (2022)" released by the National Development and Reform Commission in December 2021, the price of hazardous waste disposal in each region is different. Due to the different types of hazardous waste and the processing process, the pricing is very different.The price of high-temperature incineration treatment is generally 2000 yuan-5000 yuan/ton, and the price of curing landfills is generally 1800 yuan-4000 yuan/ton. Generally, high-temperature incineration charging standards are generally higher than curing disposal.

Sun Ning, director of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, had previously made suggestions on medical waste management. It should implement separate medical waste collection and transportation qualifications.Reasonable distribution.

■ China City News Reporter: Diao Jingyan

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