class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) on August 19, 2020 has issued the advisory notifying all health care facilities and the Urban Local Bodies to strictly follow the norms and standards as laid down in the Bio- Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 and its amendments for generating, collecting, receiving, storing, treatment or processing or conversion, recycling, disposing or destruction, offering for sale, transfer or handling bio-medical waste and Covid-19 bio-medical waste in any manner and as well as the guidelines for handling, treatment and disposal of Waste generated during treatment of Covid-19 patients-Revision 4.
The waste mask and gloves in households should be kept in paper bag for minimum 72 hours prior to disposal of the same. Discarded PPEs from general public should be stored in separate bins for 3 days thereafter disposed of as dry general solid waste after shredding.
[Notice no MPCB/BMW-5/2019-2020/107]
