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Healthcare, pollution and plastic: Alice Street at Aarhus Symposium

Presentations

At a symposium in Aarhus, Alice Street explored how healthcare facilities function as sites of plastic waste and pollution, raising questions about toxicity, infrastructure, and global health.
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Revaluing plastics in health care: Alice Street at HEAT 2025

Presentations

Alice Street presented research at HEAT 2025 examining the rise of medical plastics as a core healthcare infrastructure, and the growing challenges they pose for environmental and human health.
Three community activists occupy Govanhill baths, sitting on the roof of the baths with a banner that reads 'Ours' in 2001 when the pool was threatened with closure

Discarding well? justice and collective care in two grassroots waste initiatives in the UK

Academic publications

Grassroots initiatives model socially just, care-centred ways of “discarding well,” revealing both their transformative potential and the need for broader systemic change in waste relations.
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Incineration of medical waste in Tanzania: past, futures and the plight of single-use medical devices

Presentations

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Peter Mangesho examined Tanzania’s shift to incinerating medical waste and the challenges of waste disposal infrastructure.
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