BANGKOK (Bernama): Thai police made a revolting discovery when they raided a house in Saraburi Province in Central Thailand on Monday (March 2) and learned that at least 200,000 used face masks were distributed to the domestic market.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house in Nong Suang subdistrict in Saraburi Province and found six workers busy sorting, washing and ironing the face masks as well as repackaging them in boxes to be sold as new.One of the workers told the police that they earn 1 baht per recycled face mask, and they reprocess about 300 to 400 masks per day per person.
The authority seized all the face masks in the house and sent the samples to the Ministry of Commerce to determine their origin.
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