Materials usage, the circular economy (?) and opportunities of drive change in the orthopaedics sector and wider clinical setting

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• Activities

• Recycling, pacification and re-assignation of medical waste based on cotton, plastic and super-absorbent polymer materials

  Activity: Events › Conference

• Humanising Critical Care

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Waste materials: Quantifying environmental impacts and finding opportunities for pollution reduction

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Tackling nappy waste: Decontamination and recycling of absorbent hygiene wastes from the healthcare sector.

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Plastic Wastes”: Impacts on the Environment and Our Health?

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Research output

• Unhooking the entangled web of consumer expectancy, business drivers and entrenched economic models and the role played by both big petrochemical and plastic packaging (plastics) industries on the relative inaction and avoidance of looming environmental catastrophe: Perspectives from academics, business partners and industrialists.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

• Offensive waste valorisation in the UK: Assessment of the potentials for absorbent hygiene product (AHP) recycling

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Development of theranostic wound dressings: harnessing the knowledge of biospecific interactions at the biomaterial interface to promote healing and identify biomarkers

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

• Projects

• A biomimetic macromolecular platform for tissue healing and diagnostics at medical device interfaces: a personalised wound dressing model

  Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.

• Student theses

• The physics of droplet impact onto suspended and surface-attached metallic meshes: liquid penetration and spreading

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis