Eighty-four percent of the respondents are aware that disposable face masks cannot be

recycled and only 15% believe that these can be recycled.

Seventy-five percent of the respondents do know that face masks can be resused
while 25 percent are aware that it cannot.
Eighty-two percent of the respondents are mindful that face masks have secretions which can be
dispersed and transmitted through air. However, only 17.5 percent of them are not aware of it.

Designated trash bins are no more new to the respondents since 87. 5 % of them
are aware of it. While 12.5 % of them consider this a new idea.
 Eighty-five percent of the respondents do know that the right way to discard
disposable face masks is thru folding it in half ways. On the other hand, 15 % of them do not agree that
this is the way that face masks should be discarded.

A 4-meter distance from the people’s activities or sleeping area is believed to be the
distance that face masks must be disposed by 89 percent of the total respondents. Ten percent believe
that this should not be the distance to dispose face masks.
 A total of 95% of the respondents believe that bins for face masks must not be within
children’s reach. While only 5 % do not believe on it.

Disposable face masks are believed to be medical waste by 90 percent of the

respondents and 9 percent do not believe that they are medical waste.
 Ninety percent of respondents are aware that used disposable face masks should be
disinfected before disposal to prevent secondary transmission of COVID 19.

Face masks should not be mixed with household wastes was strongly agreed by 88
percent of the respondents.
 More than half of the respondents believe that keeping disposable face masks in a
paper bag for a minimum of 72 hours to disposal is recommended. Also, it revealed that 44 percent of
them do not practice it.

Washing hands before and after handling used disposable face masks is agreed and possibly
being done by 96 percent of the respondents.
 The respondents’ percentage of 73 did not agree that disposable face masks should be
thrown in open areas.

Different local gov’t units in the country were recognized by 86

percent of the respondents on the disposal of face masks.
 Majority of the respondents agreed that used disposable face masks are one of the
largest generators of medical solid waste during the pandemic.

More than half of the respondents believe that touching discarded face masks will make them
infected with viruses.
Half of the respondents agreed that they can get sick if they touch a discarded face mask in the bin
without washing their hands.

Sixty-eight percent of the respondents strongly agreed that it is their responsibility to dispose of face
masks correctly.
 More than half of them agreed that a mixture of disposable face masks and recyclable waste
may cause potential danger to garbage collectors when they put their hands in the waste bins.

More than half of them agreed that trash cans/bins for disposable face masks
should be setup in communities as disposal points.
 Half of them agreed that they should not randomly discard a disposable face mask
as this may carry covid-19.

Half of them strongly agreed that proper and correct disposal of face masks
may help stop the spread of Covid-19 while almost half of them agreed on that idea.
 Forty-four percent strongly agreed that they might be putting other people’s lives
at risk without proper segregation of disposable face masks

Respondents have dispersed ideas on how to lessen the number of

medical wastes generated, disposable face masks should be repurposed or upcycled.
 More than half of them strongly agreed that policies on the proper disposal of face
masks should be strictly observed and followed.

Sixty-five percent of them never reuse disposable face masks.

 Seventy-five of them always discard disposable face masks after use.

Only 40 percent of them always dispose face masks immediately in open bins upon
removal.
 More than half of them always dispose of face masks immediately in closed bins upon
removal.

Almost half of them sometimes dispose face masks in a public bag or zip-lock bag
before throwing it in the garbage bag.
 Almost half of the respondents sometimes cut the disposable face masks into half before
they discard it.

In preventing disposable face masks to be used, forty-eight percent of them cut the
disposable face masks into small parts.
 More than half of them sometimes wash their hands before taking the face
mask off.

More than half of them sometimes burn disposable face masks to

avoid infection.
 More than half of them never bury disposable face masks at a depth of at least 10
feet from the surface in order to prevent the spread of infection.

Nearly half of them disinfect the bins specific for face mask disposal before
using it again.
Forty percent of them put disposable face masks in a recycle bin.

Forty-seven of them sometimes place disposable face masks in garbage bags, tied and kept separate
form wastes.
 Sixty-eight percent of them never pour boiling water on the disposable face masks
before disposing them.

More than half of the respondents always dispose of face mask immediately if it has torn.
More than half of them always dispose of face masks immediately if it fell to the floor.

Disposable face masks are not being washed by 64 percent of them before discarding.
Almost the majority of them never upcycle face masks into something useful.

More than half of them is willing to participate in a project or campaign which raises awareness for face
mask disposal.