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Sustainable Soluble Laundry Bag for Healthcare Hygiene and Staff Safety

用于医疗保健卫生和员工安全的可持续可溶洗衣袋

基本信息

批准号：
86697
负责人：
金额：
$ 11.17万
依托单位：
XAMPLA LTD
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Collaborative R&D
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=86697
关键词：
Sustainable Soluble Laundry Bag Healthcare

项目摘要

Covid-19 has created new challenges which in some cases leads to conflicts between safety and sustainability. Single use Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) is one of those cases. Most single-use PPE is made from plastic. This provides vital safety to healthcare workers during the pandemic, but is creating a sustainability problem -- all this plastic PPE is bad for the planet.Xampla is developing an innovative, entirely natural replacement for plastic, made from plant protein. We've identified a specific PPE application where our materials can enable healthcare providers both to keep their staff safe and to protect the planet. Every day, thousands of healthcare workers in the NHS and elsewhere use soluble laundry bags. They remove their contaminated clothes at work and seal inside a plastic bag. Then they wash themselves, and change into their home clothes. This keeps their families safe, and the hospital or care home then safely handles the plastic bags containing the contaminated clothes, which go into a washing machine. In the wash, the bags dissolve, and clean clothes come out out of the machine.This is a great application, but there's a problem. These soluble, or dissolving, plastic bags are made from polluting fossil fuel plastic. The plastic is washed down the drain and can reach the environment, contributing to the ocean plastic pollution problem. Xampla's solution is a soluble bag that offers the same hygiene and safety for the healthcare workers, but is made only from plants. It dissolves and washes away, but the completely natural material can be eaten by microbes in the environment with no harm at all.It's a neat solution to a major challenge created by Covid-19\. This project aims to develop, prototype and trial innovative, sustainable soluble laundry bags for healthcare hygiene and healthcare staff safety.

Covid-19 带来了新的挑战，在某些情况下会导致安全与可持续性之间的冲突。一次性个人防护装备（PPE）就是其中之一。大多数一次性个人防护装备由塑料制成。这在大流行期间为医护人员提供了至关重要的安全，但也造成了可持续性问题——所有这些塑料个人防护装备对地球都有害。Xampla 正在开发一种由植物蛋白制成的创新型、完全天然的塑料替代品。我们已经确定了一种特定的个人防护装备应用，我们的材料可以帮助医疗保健提供者既保证员工的安全，又保护地球。每天，NHS 和其他地方的数千名医护人员都使用可溶洗衣袋。他们在工作时脱掉受污染的衣服，然后密封在塑料袋内。然后他们洗漱，换上家居服。这可以保证他们家人的安全，然后医院或疗养院可以安全地处理装有受污染衣服的塑料袋，然后将其放入洗衣机中。在洗涤过程中，袋子会溶解，干净的衣服会从机器中出来。这是一个很棒的应用，但有一个问题。这些可溶性或可溶解的塑料袋是由污染性的化石燃料塑料制成的。塑料被冲入下水道并进入环境，导致海洋塑料污染问题。 Xampla 的解决方案是一种可溶袋，可为医护人员提供相同的卫生和安全性，但仅由植物制成。它会溶解并被冲走，但这种完全天然的材料可以被环境中的微生物吃掉，而不会造成任何伤害。这是应对 Covid-19 带来的重大挑战的巧妙解决方案。该项目旨在开发、原型设计和试验创新、可持续的可溶洗衣袋，以确保医疗卫生和医护人员的安全。