Lateral Flow Testing: Should I Recycle Plastic?

Researchers estimate the UK's lateral flow testing program produced enough plastic waste to fill 200,000 bathtubs, or 19 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Scientists at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the University of Hull say once we had known that Covid-19 spreads more through the air than on surfaces, the UK government should have started recycling evidence to stop unnecessary plastic pollution avoid.

The government says it has already made changes to make testing more sustainable. But should we have recycled our lateral flow test kits?

BBC health reporter Laura Foster, who has collected the waste from all her lateral flow tests, explains the situation in two minutes.

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