Stories
- Article
Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic
Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.
- Book extract
A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
- Article
Why some patients make my heart sink
Instead of getting nowhere with certain demanding, manipulative patients, our anonymous GP wonders if there’s a way to help them.
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Waste Management
Date: 1994Reference: WF/M/I/BP/56Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 56. 'The Development of Waste Management in the UK'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/56Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Peer review in environmental technology development programs : the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology / Committee on the Department of Energy-Office of Science and Technology's Peer Review Program; Board on Radioactive Waste Management; Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources; National Research Council.
Date: 1998- Books
The role of packaging in solid waste management 1966 to 1976 / by Arsen Darnay and William E. Franklin.
Darnay, Arsen.Date: 1969- Books
Master plan for solid waste collection and disposal, tri-parish metropolitan area of New Orleans : final report on a solid waste management demonstration / prepared by Albert Switzer & Associates, inc., and Greenleaf/Telesca for the City of New Orleans.
Albert Switzer & Associates.Date: 1969