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Wow!: Greener PPE – Inventors tackle COVID-19 plastic waste mountain – Sight Magazine

EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how entrepreneurs are developing more sustainable protective gear and initiatives…

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4 years ago

July 27, 2021

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London, UKThomson 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 polluting the land and sea alarming doctors and environmentalists…

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