Tackling Covid wasteThe Ministry of Public Health will start delivering 8.5 million Covid antigen test kits (ATKs) to the public on Wednesday. The discarding of used ATKs will only add to an ever-growing mountain of Covid-infectious waste which is currently mainly face masks. During normal times, such waste is typically limited to hospitals and medical facilities and is managed by a professionally licensed waste disposal company, which is costly. There had been a suggestion to allow industrial incinerators and furnaces to burn infectious waste but it did not gain much attention from the authorities. Let's hope something comes from it, as without a proper disposal system, infectious waste from Covid measures will become a new problem for our "new normal" Covid lifestyle.

Source: Bangkok Post September 10, 2021 22:12 UTC