A '90s cartoon inspired nurse Claire Lane to set up a for-purpose organisation that collects usable medical supplies from hospitals and ships them to developing countries and war-torn areas like Ukraine. Brisbane-based charity 'Save our Supplies' furnishes hospitals with a ...
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One Brisbane nurse’s fight to curb our ever-growing landfill and reuse medical waste
Fed up with the tonnes of unused medical supplies thrown out by her local hospital, theatre nurse Claire Lane devised a way to reduce landfills and give aid to those who need it. The 33-year-old Brisbane mother collects and redistributes ...
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Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...
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