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 ...

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 ...

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 associated high costs. No one ...

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 ...

A doctor on the frontline of Britain's coronavirus outbreak has revealed how staff must wear wafer-thin paper masks, plastic aprons and gloves instead of full protective gear. They had high-tech masks ...

Single-use Covid facemasks, plastic aprons and visors could be recycled into green fuel via a new technique developed by scientists. The Swansea University-led team said it could help tackle a global ...

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, ...

Appalled by the tonnes of plastic trash generated by the pandemic, entrepreneurs are developing reusable PPE and turning single-use masks into everything from bricks to toolboxes LONDON, July 26 ...