The Fabric of Matter
The Fabric of Matter supports NHS Scotland’s efforts to reduce plastic waste by exploring innovative ways to repurpose single-use PPE and other materials, turning potential waste into sustainable resources.
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About the Project
The overarching goal of this project is to assist NHS Health Boards across Scotland to understand and harness the potential of their plastic waste streams.
NHS Scotland is striving to embed robust environmental stewardship practices, focusing on reducing plastic waste in healthcare settings. However, in some cases, including single-use PPE plastics, it’s not always clear if and how they can be safely, efficiently and effectively recycled.
We are working collaboratively with design practitioners who work with recycled plastic, to create viable test-samples from existing NHS Scotland waste. This testing, at small scale, will create case-studies on the viability of repurposing parts of the NHS current waste streams that currently end up in landfill or incineration.
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