From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

London, United Kingdom - Earth Safe PPE, the pioneering sustainability leader in PPE Recycling and Textile recycling, has been awarded two major accolades at the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

UK Covid Waste: The UK decided to get rid of the stock as it was costing too much to store it as last year the country spent $28.1 million (£23 million) on storage. About 64.4 million surgical face ...

Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), said that the UK is currently holding around 12.6 billion items of PPE such as masks, gloves and aprons. He ...

A mountain of PPE which was dumped near a nature reserve has finally been cleared away. Healthcare workers were among those left furious after piles of boxes containing aprons and face masks were left ...

About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the pandemic. Figures obtained by the BBC ...

THE amount of public money wasted on PPE during the pandemic was enough to save every household in the UK more than £310, new figures show. In February the Government admitted it had blown an ...

Unused personal protective equipment bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds is being auctioned off by the Government for as little as £250. Millions of surplus aprons, visors, hand sanitisers and ...

Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on Covid-related personal protective equipment (PPE) that never left China. Ministers signed off orders for 64.4 million surgical facemasks and ...

A high-profile shipment to the UK of surgical gowns, hailed by ministers as a solution to Britain’s personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, has ended with little of the expected fanfare – with ...