The structure of the Commissioner for the Covid Emergency, Francesco Figliuolo, has initiated the provisions for the sale or expressions of interest regarding a "huge accumulation" of masks without Ce certification and other materials destined for the Covid emergency in the first phase of the pandemic in 2020, no longer usable.
According to the Commissioner's determination, the material occupies a total volume of 40 thousand cubic meters in the warehouses, for the storage of which a burden of over one million euros per month is incurred.
About 218 million unusable masks will be destroyed at the request of the commissioner.
A specialized waste company, A2A, which has won the specific tender, is responsible for the disposal, for 698 thousand euros.
The devices to be eliminated are the so-called 'community masks' (acquired by the previous commissioner structure, allowed in the first phase of the pandemic, without certifications and less effective than surgical ones), which have so far been stored in the facility's warehouses for 313 thousand euros. per month.
"They have never been requested, neither by the regions, nor by other affiliated entities" and "today they no longer find any possibility of employment", reads the Commissioner's decision.