TheLowCarbonMidwife

Midwife on a mission to reduce the carbon footprint of pregnancy, birth and beyond.

[Nursing Times @NursingTimes]

Time to act: what nurses can do to reduce the environmental burden of PPE
https://t.co/ysGf99wArT

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

This!

[Nursing Times @NursingTimes]

Time to act: what nurses can do to reduce the environmental burden of PPE
https://t.co/ysGf99wArT

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

I can’t wait for this! https://t.co/DJ5BW2LkAq

[Professor Nick Watts @ProfNickWatts]

We're growing the Greener NHS team to deliver the world's first net zero health service with 5 new roles - an incredible mandate & an incredible opportunity for anyone who's had enough 'talk' and wants to start delivering a more resilient, sustainable NHS

https://t.co/i4W4bFsXNZ

[Katharine Edmonds @DrKatharineE]

Excited to pilot reusable masks with @greengpwessex. 7 billion disposable masks in the NHS this year so far 😬
The rest of the country have been recycling fabric to make reusables but the NHS are still churning out wasteful, expensive masks.

👏 @alexiskeech for setting this up.

[Alexis Percival @alexiskeech]

Weekly facemask update, avid PPE fans

663, 433, 910 single use facemasks used during this pandemic to date by the NHS.

Of these 611,114, 821 single use were Type IIR

#Choosetoreuse

[First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition]

You can read the full paper on the microplastics from infant feeding bottles from the team at Trinity College Dublin here
https://t.co/dram1sW8Af

[Alexis Percival @alexiskeech]

Isn't it time we all start looking a reusables? There are so many options available now. 646 million single use facemasks and counting used by the NHS #ChooseToReuse #GreenerNHS

[Alexis Percival @alexiskeech]

All the wonderful 11 reusable facemasks that we have for our #reusablefacemask trial to stop the 676 million disposables. Most are type IIR /working towards accreditation, some have viral coating, all have high filtration and ALL are reusable.
#ChooseToReuse #GreenerNHS

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

⁦I’m sending packaging back to the supermarkets when it’s not recyclable. #PlasticPollution ⁦@waitrose⁩ ⁦@HughFW⁩

[Sustainable RCHT @SustainableRCHT]

We're really excited to be working with @alexiskeech and others to trial #reusable #masks in our hospitals! Watch this space for more info... #GreenNHS #WearAMask #StaySafe #Reuse

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

Hear hear! https://t.co/wUp0c3jjPA

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

This is such a fantastic initiative- imperative that we start to use reusable face masks at work #ClimateEmergency

[Alexis Percival @alexiskeech]

#WarOnPlastic we are working to reduce the half a billion facemasks that the NHS has churned through during this pandemic. Reusable and washable clinical grade facemasks have been developed and can be used now #ChooseToReuse

[Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @xandvt]

The destruction of ecosystems and use of fossil fuels is the greatest threat to human health linked as it is to pandemic disease, violent conflict and human rights abuses

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

To achieve the aims on which almost everyone agrees - a habitable planet, universal wellbeing, good public health, housing and diets for all - we have to fight almost everyone in power.

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

Today’s email. Please feel free to send one too! #plasticpollution #ClimateEmergency @sduhealth @GreenerPractice

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

I wrote to the Vitamin K manufacturers #cheplapharm today- to ask them to reduce unnecessary plastic waste in their product. Will you join me? #ClimateCrisis #plasticpollution

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

We need to act now. https://t.co/852shoYBeH

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

Ditto masks...

[Theatre Caps @TheatreCaps]

Hospitals are disposing of tens of thousands of single-use theatre caps a year. They have a terrible environmental impact from point of production to ending in landfill. #savetheplanet
Check out our range and blog at https://t.co/TONhvnFvCf

[TheLowCarbonMidwife @ClimateMidwife]

As health care professionals we have a duty to protect the environment as it’s so closely linked to health outcomes and ultimately, our survival. We need compostable, reusable PPE!!

[Alexis Percival @alexiskeech]

Between Feb and July the health and social care system consumed 421,819,000 face masks

421 million single use face masks

#reusablemasks
#choosetoreuse
#GreenerNHS