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Circular Economics: how they reduce plastic pollution in community care while also creating jobs and offsetting manufacturing emissions too. 📆 2pm Tuesday 22nd March GMT, 3pm CET ✏ Free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/292245523227 This talk also disseminates the results of a case study in South Manchester, UK. Which has been running a circular plastics micro-economy with pharmacy as a hub, in Trafford CCG on behalf of Greener NHS North West. #Remasked focused on the economic utility of care waste. Both the cultural and public receptivity and participation in circular plastics economies. Microeconomies, operating locally make these cycles smaller, create local jobs, and give plastics longer life compared to long-distance circular economies and reduce the amount of CO2e emitted in production and eradicating all freight. Recycled plastic replacing conventionally manufactured virgin plastics for fixtures and fittings, small scale tools, laboratory apparatus, and general accessories and offers smart waste tracking of carbon dioxide and plastic savings and compares other useful waste streams like bottle tops and aligns to the reporting requirements of pharmacies and other community providers in the new service agreement. Aligning the reporting needs of the NHS and UK public sector more widely.
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Pharmacy waste is a major source of plastic pollution. While a regulated industry, pharmaceutical lose sight of this when medicines are handed over to patients and customers. Plastic packaging then makes its way to landfill. This includes medicine pots and inhaler mouthpieces. Hosting #Remasked circular micro-economies collects that waste and provides community repair cafés, groups, housing associations, cars homes and the general public with a cost-effective alternative supply of fixtures and fittings, parts, and accessories that are 3D printed from that plastic waste. The general public drop off any plastic waste, its turned into two clips, clamps, tweezers, brackets and a host of other items at the touch of a button. The #Remasked service also allows Lloyds to track how much waste was collected and reprocessed. Providing a real time report of the number of items made, the weight of plastic collected & recycled and the carbon dioxide saved. This reporting is necessary in the new NHS Standard Contract requirements. Helping provide that evidence transparently and in real time. www.remasked.org
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300m items of PPE expired in the UK pandemic stockpile SINCE mid-2020! Back in May 2020, Channel 4 found out the UK pandemic response stockpile had 200 million items of expired PPE that was YEARS out of date! so when the pandemic first hit, there was nothing for healthcare workers to protect themselves with. It was as good as having none available. Fast forward to January 2022, and behold! Not content with wasting 200 million items of PPE over 8-years, procurement go one better and waste 300 million items over 2 years. That is: * over £303 million in wasted funds * a minimum of 1,500 tonnes of plastic (probability about to burn) * 6,000 tonnes of CO2 (manifest and embodied) gone to waste The NHS and UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) need to prevent this happening again! They need to work with organisations like Automedi, who recycle those masks into parts for hospital maintenance and wider economic value. At least to mitigate the loss of otherwise good PPE. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-ppe-omicron-stockpile-uk-latest-b1986637.html
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Despite best efforts, COP26 has resulted in a watered done agreement that has no actionable items in it. The sentiment of the clauses are shown below. Almost half repeating the acknowledgements of the past, not actions of the future. Yet, COP comes back in a year to assess progress against these climate "commitments". Perhaps introducing more robust measures or new action taken once signatories have made it further. Yet, we must not forget that climate change isn't waiting around. Next year, we emit up to 12 years worth of CO2 compared to early industrial levels, towards the 1.5 degree target. Failure to lead here risks irrelevance. We have a lot to do. 👇 https://www.automedi.co.uk/post/cop26-washout-or-stepping-stone
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As we have seen through the election of Donald Trump, the public response to the pandemic and also the UK's EU referendum amongst many other incidents around the world, disinformation is by far one of the most powerful tools used by anti-justice movements to discredit or derail campaigns from within. Their aim to disrupt each social justice movement by infecting it with information which causes people to act against its best interests. This can also happen innocently and spontaneously. Because climate action is a grass roots, people-oriented movement, it is not exempt from this effect. In fact, it is more likely to happen in such movements than not. Two examples of climate disinformation and misinformation respectively are: 1. Overpopulation - this has been about since the 1970s. All 7bn people can fit into a space the size of the Isle of Wight (so small, it's almost invisible from space) and scientific modelling has also shown that the Earth will not reach more than on 10 billion people before the population starts declining. The earth's resources can support 200 billion RESPONSABLE people. The disproportionate amount of carbon dioxide emitted by wealthy developed nations mean the richest top 10% are responsible for over 50% of CO2 emitted. Someone in Qatar has a Carbon footprint 5,000 times higher than someone in the Congo. Given we have to reduce our CO2 by 60% in less than 10-years, we cannot get there by natural population attrition even if we stopped having children tomorrow. Some people within the movement are already calling before the unthinkable and descending into eco-fascism. Facebook groups set up to tackle climate change are taken over by those wishing to derail it, that either take over the group as an admin through a social engineering attack, or repeatedly inject a subject that's false, disproved by science, but has intuitive plausibility. Overpopulation is one such example. 2. Cotton bags - have been shown to be significantly more climate harmful than even plastic bags. Both the UK Environment Agency and the formal Danish study identified a minimum of 131-times worse footprint than plastic bags. We definitely need to reduce single use plastic bag use-cases. However, substituting a plastic bag with something 131x worse, which you cannot wash even once without adding significant amounts of CO2 and water use, is not only climate harmful because cotton is not a sustainable product, but also risks further carbon impact through the risk of disease and so even higher carbon risks through the health system, because it's possible for E-coli to grow on such products. The former is being fostered by disinformation groups around the world and climate activist are falling for it hook line and sinker. Because it is a perfect way to introduce autocracy and nationalism by infecting people with a sense of social good, albeit relatively low critical thinking skills. The latter, and misinformation, is less deliberate, and it's is believed by people whose heart is in the right place, but they lack the scientific knowledge and rigour to conduct quantitative analyses on options. Both of these are harmful to the planet (and people) in different ways. We Don't Have Time has a role to play in tackling this. It needs to eradicate the former messaging and educate for the latter at the same time. Otherwise it will simply become yet another space to radicalize individuals, many of them will then go on to harm other people in the name of climate action. Facebook is already seeing this, as Facebook groups have become radicalisation cells for disinformed climate action. Our movement and the Earth's climate have no time to waste trying to prevent disinformation through a slow process of misinformed debate and misplaced dialog. It certainly can't afford the wasted time of wrong decisions or action being taken on them. That means science must take primacy and everything (dialog, policy, action) becomes subservient to that, if we are ever to solve the climate crisis. The rest, is on you. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethar-alali_climatechange-environment-climatecrisis-activity-6823571371856052224-DiW5
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Climate change glossary: Embedded Carbon When you hold an item in your hands, that product's carbon footprint is not just in the item in your hands. it is also no the accumulation of all the extraction, processing, manufacturing, assembly and transportation costs as well as any storage required when it gets to you. If you you then dispose of that item, it is taken away with the rest of your trash and either burnt for energy, or placed in landfill, if it's not recycled. When you buy another item and you hold it in your hands, you are then holding the amalgamation of another embedded carbon footprint. That's two items, two embedded carbon footprints, two disposals. Reusing an item, even once, removes the second and subsequent lots of embedded carbon impacts and disposals. This can be significant. A 12g face mask, has an average embedded Carbon footprint of 52 g. In low-risk settings, it doesn't have to be changed that frequently. Reusing it even once, saves 52 g each time as you are not using another one. Also, recycling provides an opportunity to reclaim some of that embedded carbon footprint once it's past its useful life but it doesn't save as much as reuse. Have you got a climate term you'd like to know the definition of? Drop it in the comments
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Happy Earth Day!
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There is no wealth without health, and climate impacts are health impacts. Circular economics and lower power federated, advanced edge micro-manufacturing & recycling fleets are a game-changer in the fight against climate change, health and income inequality. Nurturing entrepreneurship in recycling and manufacturing of plastic waste equipment, without the need for external supply, road infrastructure & through a renewable powered appliance managed, remotely through a fleet control platform across the globe. Ensuring parts are made by people, for people and supply shortages become a thing of the past. Find out more about hospital deployments at: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/automedi_our-circular-demand-side-factories-are-very-activity-6833426399974481920-GL3p
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The price of emission rights within the EU reached record highs this month. It has become increasingly expensive for European industries and power companies to emit carbon dioxide in recent years. A new maximum listing was reached on Thursday (February 4th) when emission rights in the EU market were traded for up to 38 euros per tonne. The reason why this is happening is very much thanks to former Swedish Minister Isabella Lövin that succeeded in changing the EU emission trading. The so-called "Swedish proposal." Prices are forecast to continue to increase, and this will have a huge climate benefit. This is one of the most important climate action from any European politician! It makes me proud to be Swedish. And everyone should be regardless of how they voted in the Swedish election. On 1 January 2021, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will enter a new trading period. Several new provisions will come into force, including the introduction of a mechanism to remove residual allowances from the system so that these allowances cannot be used. The mechanism is the result of a Swedish proposal in the latest negotiation. - I am extremely proud of Sweden's leading role in the latest revision of the EU's emissions trading. In recent years, we have seen the effect the Swedish proposal has had. It shows what a big difference a small ambitious country can make, says former Minister of the Environment and Climate Isabella Lövin. The mechanism means that an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents will reduce the emission space within the system. This corresponds to about 50 times Sweden's total annual emissions. Read more (in Swedish): https://www.regeringskansliet.se/pressmeddelanden/2020/09/svenskt-initiativ-minskar-utslappsutrymmet-inom-eu-ets/ and https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/rekorddyrt-att-slappa-ut-koldioxid-i-eu/
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Healthcare services stand to gain the most from the emergence of circular plastic economies. The UK National Health Services is the world's biggest public health service that also produces the UK's biggest carbon footprint and is the biggest consumer of single use plastics. Only 5% of health plastics are currently recycled. One third of the worst performing UK local authority. The footprint is equivalent to 2.8 million UK households. But in 2020, the NHS demonstrated their commitment to carbon neutrality and plastic reduction through its Net Zero plan. Do circular economies have a place in health services of the future?
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Climate footprints for some developed world health systems are huge! The UK NHS has a bigger carbon footprint than Lebanon, Croatia and Estonia and only 5% of their health plastics are recycled. Plastic-like products are still needed for healthcare reasons. For example, venepuncture tubes (bloods and intravenous medicines). So using purely stainless steel or glass for this is both dangerous and the climate cost of cleaning it, is larger than the short-term impact of these plastics. However, circular economies combining bioplastics and additive manufacturing, can make, use and recycle those plastics in hospital grounds. Reducing all oil consumption, manufacturing energy and storage; eradicating all freight and haulage emissions; Utilise otherwise wasted crops and removes supply chain risks during emergency events like pandemics. All while making it at least 60% cheaper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiDlsEenvPQ&feature=youtu.be
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