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Originally Posted by Simondi
So back on topic please gents.
Plastic, the whys and wherefores, the do's and don'ts and the should we or shouldn't we
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Okay Simon,
Can all the plastics be replaced? I am thinking about plastic syringes and the plastic collars each needle goes into, to hold the syringe. I can remember at the start of my nursing career drawing a drug up and using a glass syringe to admin meds to a patient, circa 1973. The syringes were not thrown away, they were sterilised, repacked and the packaging was colour coded with an expiry date, to be reused. In those days the issue was not about plastic. The issues would have been around wages, going into the EU, social and economic. We were not environmentally aware in those days. How times have changed.