The current pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, raises questions and brings challenges regarding municipal waste management practices and procedures (safety and health measures for employees, and residents)
Residents placing their trash or recycling bins outdoors to be picked up by municipal collectors should handle these bins as a possible source of infection. Municipal collectors handle thousands of bins per day, and could transfer the pathogen from an infected bin to another.
Use disposable protective gloves and disinfect your trash & recycled bin handles after every collection.