Re: From leadership to biodiversity: the good of small things
Dear Kamran,
I have just read your editor’s choice entry in June 29th edition of the BMJ.
I fully agree with the sentiments therein - and that we should ‘sweat the small stuff’ when it comes to the environment and the planet. However, the BMJ (and other medical journals) that are delivered to me every week still come wrapped in plastic packaging which goes directly to landfill. Not particularly environmentally friendly is it? I also subscribe to ‘Which?’ magazine and they have recently switched to a fully compostable potato starch wrapper after a consultation with their readership. It is a perfectly suitable alternative that I get great satisfaction from when I stuff it into my green bin.
Isn’t it time that our medical journals did the same?
With kindest regards.
Dr Ross Cunningham
GPAiT - Whipps Cross VTS, London
GMC 7406600
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Re: From leadership to biodiversity: the good of small things
Dear Kamran,
I have just read your editor’s choice entry in June 29th edition of the BMJ.
I fully agree with the sentiments therein - and that we should ‘sweat the small stuff’ when it comes to the environment and the planet. However, the BMJ (and other medical journals) that are delivered to me every week still come wrapped in plastic packaging which goes directly to landfill. Not particularly environmentally friendly is it? I also subscribe to ‘Which?’ magazine and they have recently switched to a fully compostable potato starch wrapper after a consultation with their readership. It is a perfectly suitable alternative that I get great satisfaction from when I stuff it into my green bin.
Isn’t it time that our medical journals did the same?
With kindest regards.
Dr Ross Cunningham
GPAiT - Whipps Cross VTS, London
GMC 7406600
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