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450 years it takes for a mass to
decompose our descendants our future are
going to keep seeing these things
forever
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they'll take things like patient
transfer sheets their curtains their
scrubs
drapes hair nets and of course face
masks
the temperature of this
during the process
will go up in excess of 300 degrees for
over 25 minutes
which kills
all of the pathogens that are released
uh covered
uh it'll even it'll even negate anthrax
which is one of the hardest pathogens to
kill
the problem is huge
we make 55 million masks a day in the uk
and
globally the figure is 129 billion masks
and a lot of those are being discarded
into landfill and a lot of them as
you've seen in all the images around the
world are in waterways or in seas it's
it's huge and it's not just masks it's
all the other products as well
so you see these white bits by here
this is all the mask so this is all the
metal nose pieces of the masks
so this is the proof that goes to you've
got to be careful because it's uh
they're a bit sharp
it'll be turning the biggest problem
that we have in the medical industry
with single-use plastic we'll just be
able to keep turning it over and turning
it over and using it and using it again
i've created anything from an umbrella
to a mask
to a coat to a set of scrubs to a
football kit to a polo shirt to a high
visibility jacket so they're the range
of stuff that i've created just to show
people what you can make from rubbish
and they're sort of like going to me
what are you talking about that can't be
made of plastic and i'm saying well yeah
these recycling processes tend to be
quite small at the moment
they lack some of the economies of scale
but that will change as those processes
increase in scale they will get further
energy savings and those can be then
quite significant again so you know i
see it as a very much positive
trend it's ridiculous we're just
discarding these single-use disposable
items they're not single use they're not
disposable they can be recovered they
can be remade they can be reused
multiple times