Circular economy experts have made it easier for hospitals to use reusable forms of PPE with the development of a new ‘modular laundry system’. St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle, Cornwall, is the first to process its reusable facemasks, surgical gowns, operating theatre drapes and other PPE items through the new laundry system, which is located in the Newham business district in Truro. It was developed by sustainable medical textiles firm Revolution-Zero led by Dr Tom Dawson, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Business School, and funded through…
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