Appropriate disposal of waste related to COVID-19 infection

　From May 8, 2023, the position of new coronavirus infection has been changed from infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza to Class 5 infectious diseases.
　The disposal of waste generated daily from business sites is one of the essential public utilities supporting society.
　Until now, waste related to COVID-19 infection had been disposed of in accordance with various guidelines, but due to the change to Class 5 infectious diseases, the government is no longer required to practice uniformly.
　In the future, individuals and businesses will be required to take voluntary infection control measures, but since these guidelines are considered to be useful for each entity involved in waste treatment to tackle infectious disease control. Please use it in the future.

・Guidelines for Countermeasures against COVID-19 Infectious Diseases for Waste (PDF: 1,677KB)
[From the Ministry of the Environment]
・Guidelines for Countermeasures against COVID-19 in the Waste Management Business (PDF: 466KB)
[From the Japan Environmental Sanitation Center and the Nihon Sangyo Waste Management Promotion Center]

・Handling of guidelines, etc. accompanying the change in positioning of COVID-19 infection under the Infectious Diseases Law (May 1, 2023) (PDF: 153KB) [Notice of the Ministry of the Environment]
・Response to COVID-19 infection after the transition to Class 5 infectious diseases (outside site) [Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website]
・Covid-19 infection (special page) [Yokohama City homepage]
・Infectious waste disposal manual based on the Waste Management Law (PDF: 3,378KB) [From the Ministry of the Environment]
・Q & A (outside site) on measures against new coronavirus infection in waste disposal [Ministry of the Environment homepage]
・Materials (external site) that summarizes waste measures related to COVID-19 infection [from the Ministry of the Environment]
・About disposal of waste discharged from inoculation of vaccine to affect COVID-19 infection (April 2, 2021) (PDF: 249KB) [Notice of the Ministry of the Environment]
・About equipment (partitions, etc.) of new coronavirus infection measures that became unnecessary [Yokohama City homepage]