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plastic and diabetes today

vic hill

vic hill

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Location
bury st edmunds suffolk
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
Sitting down having breakfast today .
the radio had been talking about the PLASTIC problem , why the top piece of plastic on meat items pack ,was not recycle
but the bottom was .?
got me thinking , Blood strips plastice Bottle that they come in plastic , Pump some parts plastic .Insulin lines plastic . needles plastic to hold them on to skin ,
but i only use Steel . acetone test strips plastic all my supplies for pump contained in a plastic package all my `Tablets
in plastic packing .
if it disappeared OVERNIGHT WHAT WOULD WE DO
DO YOU KNOW WHEN I STARTED ON INSULIN glass syringe steel needle s vial glass 1957 that was
DEDICATED TO BLUE PLANET 11

VIC 63 yrs on insulin
 
Congrats @vic hill on the 63 years. I still have my glass syringes and metal needles from 52 years ago. The only bothersome thing was having to keep re-sterilising them in an old aluminium tin, which tablets used to come packaged in.
Unfortunately with the lurgy of blood-borne infections we have to burn rather than recycle some of our present day injection paraphenalia but I agree more use, less waste is much more preferable.
I gather they recycle Omnipod pump patches. About time other things like that were recycled.
And perhpa\s speeding up the research and use of plastic eating bacteria might also help.
 
You never hear of all of those disposable nappies / diapers that are chucked in the bin, only bottles and wrappings never kerappy nappies.

Plastic caps lock keys get up my nose as well.
 
And whilst we are at it, what about all those sticky labels they put on fruit, may not be all plastic but they add up.
Tidying up after a kite festival one time, there were hundreds of those bendy plastic straws off the small boxy fruit juice containers and the cellophane type near invisible plastic which surrounds them and gets discarded as you remove the straw to use it !! triple grrrrr!!!
 
kitedoc said:
And whilst we are at it, what about all those sticky labels they put on fruit, may not be all plastic but they add up.
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Talking of labels, those little orange coloured stickers on hearing aid batteries are a pain t peel off, and a bigger pain trying to get them off your thumb.
 
Tipetoo said:
Talking of labels, those little orange coloured stickers on hearing aid batteries are a pain t peel off, and a bigger pain trying to get them off your thumb.
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Reminds of the old quandary, How to you get peanut butter off the roof of your mouth ??
 
Trust me industrialism does more damage than the plastic we betics use to make sure our stuff is safe. I work in a shop where a metal cage comes wrapped in plastic, full of stock wrapped in plastic, that I burst down to open more plastic so it's in its individual packaging. Then I take all the cardboard mess and put it back in the metal cage where I wrap it in two layers of industrial clingfilm, 5 feet plus. We use plastic to stay sanitary. Industry is just wasteful. They deserve the blames and attacks.
 
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