Two Cork cousins have developed a compostable PPE apron to reduce plastic usage in the healthcare industry. Dr Mary O'Riordan and Lisa O’Riordan developed their 'guilt-free' HaPPE Earth apron in ...
(MENAFN- The Conversation) COVID-19 has highlighted the staggering amount of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) that medical and healthcare facilities use on a daily basis, and the ...
NHS medics fighting on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic are being force to cut up plastic curtains and use them as gowns, it has been claimed. Health Secretary Matt Hancock had previously ...
A Black Country care provider has condemned firms cashing in on Covid-19 after it was asked to pay £2 for a plastic, throw-away apron which normally sells for two pence. Wednesbury-based Awarding Care ...
Bosses at Southmead Hospital had to recall a batch of PPE aprons after staff complained they were little more than ‘bin bags with the bottom cut off them’. Bosses at the hospital the aprons 'met the ...
LONDON, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is ...
More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19 - mainly catching it while at work, according to new research. The GMB union said a survey of 1,600 of its members in the service in England, ...
The apron also reduces the carbon footprint of a standard apron by more than 75% through the use of local transport and manufacturing. Lisa O’Riordan, Co-founder HaPPE Earth, Johnny Brackett HCA, ...
More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19 - mainly catching it while at work, according to new research. The GMB union said a survey of 1,600 of its members in the service in England, ...