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What’s the environmental cost of PPE?

3 August 2020

Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) explains how the successful reusable plastic initiatives have stopped with the increase in single-use plastics like disposable utensils and PPE, and explains how many of these are being disposed of unsafely, creating hazards.

Listen: BBC World Service Radio’s ‘Newshour’ (from 20 mins)