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Candidates must pass the MRCS (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons) exam at the end of their core training. For entry to plastic surgery speciality training, candidates must have spent at least six months in a plastic surgery post.In 2019, 149 doctors applied for 38 ST3 training places, a ratio of 3.62 (4). Pepsico responded that they want to decrease "virgin plastic in our beverage business by 35% by 2025" and also expanding reuse and refill practices what should prevent 67 billion single use bottles by 2025. [56] Major plastic waste generator and polluter countries Share of plastic waste that is inadequately managed Per capita mismanaged plastic waste (in kilograms per person per day) Plastic waste generation How to scale up good practice examples for the pathways towards a to sustainable and circular plastics system Plastic surgery curriculum [Internet]. Gmc-uk.org. 2020 [cited 14 June 2020]. Available from: https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/curricula/plastic-surgery-curriculum

Non-degradable biobased plastics are conventional plastic types produced with renewable biobased materials. This type of plastic can be recycled in the same way as and mixed with plastics from fossil fuel sources. Note: The life cycle steps highlighted in blue are the ones most relevant for the renewable material pathway, but are not necessarily the only ones that can be found. Plastics pollution is found everywhere in the environment, even in remote places, as has been known for years. Recently, knowledge has increased about the negative impact of plastics on climate change, air pollution and human health. New pathways for plastics production and consumption are needed to increase circularity and sustainability in Europe and beyond. The three pathways discussed in this briefing are smarter use, increased circularity and renewable materials, for which good practice examples are found across Europe (EEA, 2020). Option 2: For this calculation of the wind speed threshold it was assumed that the ability of the wind force to mobilise and transport macroplastics (in the direction of the wind) decreases for uphill winds and increases for downhill winds. The reasoning behind this is that in the case of uphill winds, the wind force is counteracted, while for downhill winds it is assisted, by the force of gravity. Therefore, apart from the land use, the topography is taken into account as well. For each radian of terrain slope angle, 4.2m/s is added (for uphill winds) or subtracted (for downhill winds) from the wind speed thresholds that hold for flat terrains (second column in Table 1). The value of 4.2m/s was determined by assuming that the wind speed threshold for (hypothetically) vertical bare lands equals 0.0m/s (free fall). This would imply that a decrease of 6.6m/s of the wind speed threshold, corresponds to a terrain slope increase of 90° (½π radians). For simplification, we assumed a linear relation, which translates to a decrease of 4.2m/s for each radian of terrain slope increase. An important implication of this approach is that the wind speed thresholds do not only vary in space, but in time as well, since the wind directions can vary with time. For example, at time t, a certain wind speed at a specific location appears to be insufficient to mobilise and transport macroplastics, while at t+1, the same wind speed but in a different direction appears to be sufficient to surpass the wind speed threshold and consequently displaces the macroplastics.Good practice examples for the increased circularity pathway are often related to the increased collection, sorting and recycling of plastics achieved through business, policymaker and citizen initiatives. These are discussed below. Increased collection and sorting of plastic Supporting Information: Export of plastic debris by rivers into the sea" (PDF). [ full citation needed] [110] Asia was the leading source of mismanaged plastic waste, with China alone accounting for 2.4 million metric tons. [111] EC, 2022, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — EU policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics (COM(2022) 682). Many plastics contain additives that might hinder the recycling process by contaminating the resulting recyclates. Uncertainty about the composition of waste material often leads to disposal by incineration, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. As of today, there are no plastic transport models that simulate the trajectories of MPW between these terrestrial compartments ( Wayman and Niemann, 2021), whereas such models have already been successfully developed for the marine environment ( Lebreton et al., 2012; Maximenko et al., 2012; van Sebille et al., 2012; Hardesty et al., 2017; Delandmeter and van Sebille, 2019; Onink et al., 2021). Therefore, we developed the Plastic Pathfinder, a macroplastic transport and fate model that simulates the pathways and spatiotemporal distribution of MPW within the terrestrial parts of river basins. The model concept is based on the assumption that macroplastic waste is mobilized and transported when the driving forces, in this case wind and surface runoff, overcome the terrain friction caused by the (combination of the) terrain slope and type of land use. Our model additionally identifies where terrestrial pollution enters freshwater systems, which makes it valuable for the coupling with existing freshwater plastic transport models. In this paper, we introduce the basic concepts of the Plastic Pathfinder and demonstrate its use through application to an idealized case study. Besides the significant contribution to a better fundamental understanding of plastic transport and accumulation in terrestrial systems, the Plastic Pathfinder is a useful tool for developing and improving (inter)national plastic monitoring, collection and mitigation strategies. 2 Materials and methods

Once the Plastic Pathfinder contains empirically proven mobilisation and transport thresholds, the model predictions would ideally be calibrated and validated with observational data. The modelled macroplastic waste distribution on land can be compared with actual macroplastic distribution data; quantified by e.g., field plastic collection efforts ( van Emmerik et al., 2020), citizen litter collection projects ( Syberg et al., 2020), or optical satellite data ( Biermann et al., 2020). We anticipate that future collaborations with field collection and monitoring projects allow for a fast and robust calibration of the Plastic Pathfinder and improve the validity of its predicted MPW transport and fate in river basins. 4.1.2 Future recommendationsA 2017 study found that 83% of tap water samples taken around the world contained plastic pollutants. [90] [91] This was the first study to focus on global drinking water pollution with plastics, [92] and showed that with a contamination rate of 94%, tap water in the United States was the most polluted, followed by Lebanon and India. European countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France had the lowest contamination rate, though still as high as 72%. [90] This means that people may be ingesting between 3,000 and 4,000 microparticles of plastic from tap water per year. [92] The analysis found particles of more than 2.5 microns in size, which is 2500 times bigger than a nanometer. It is currently unclear if this contamination is affecting human health, but if the water is also found to contain nano-particle pollutants, there could be adverse impacts on human well-being, according to scientists associated with the study. [93] TIG (Training Interface Group) Fellowships are increasing in popularity among trainees in the final stages of speciality training. TIG is a special interest area that combines certain curriculum elements from another speciality. These are available in oncoplastic breast surgery, major trauma and skin oncology to name a few. Finally, we advocate for an all-encompassing model that includes the terrestrial and freshwater environment. This can be achieved by coupling the Plastic Pathfinder with a river plastic transport model, for example with the model developed by Newbould et al. (2021). The river entry points predicted by the Plastic Pathfinder will form this link as they deliver information on where, when and how much plastic waste leaks from land into the river system. This will allow for genuine estimates on how much of the generated land-based plastic waste actually reaches the oceans via rivers. 4.2 The Plastic Pathfinder – an innovative tool Trainees can opt to complete a fellowship post speciality training completion and prior to applying to a consultant post. (5)

Different surgeries will vary in length as they can range from local anaesthetic surgery to complex surgeries requiring other speciality surgeons. There is a mix of planned and elective surgeries. Night on-calls could happen on occasion to deal with emergency surgeries such as patients with severe burns/trauma patients following accidents. There are differing estimates of how much plastic waste has been produced in the last century. By one estimate, one billion tons of plastic waste have been discarded since the 1950s. [32] Others estimate a cumulative human production of 8.3 billion tons of plastic, of which 6.3 billion tons is waste, with only 9% getting recycled. [33] [34] For more information onsalaries within the NHS, please feel free to review The Complete Guide to NHS Pay. Policymakers have a very important role to play in the continued development of policy initiatives that contribute to designing better products for reuse and recycling, increasing the collection rate of plastic waste, and further developing sorting and recycling technology, as well as providing well-developed markets for secondary materials. Plastic debris is categorized as macrodebris when it is larger than 20mm. These include items such as plastic grocery bags. [3] Macrodebris are often found in ocean waters, and can have a serious impact on the native organisms. Fishing nets have been prime pollutants. Even after they have been abandoned, they continue to trap marine organisms and other plastic debris. Eventually, these abandoned nets become too difficult to remove from the water because they become too heavy, having grown in weight up to 6 tonnes. [3] Plastic productionSome trainees may need to self-fund extra education courses due to limited funding for plastic surgery training. Statistics — Royal College of Surgeons [Internet]. Royal College of Surgeons. 2020 [cited 16 June 2020]. Available from: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/careers-in-surgery/women-in-surgery/statistics/ The third type of model output is independent of the MPW generation input data and is presented in a ‘potential plastic routing map’. This output focuses on the potential pathways of macroplastic waste through a river basin. 3 Results This ratio is the highest of all the medical and surgical specialities. It is followed by trauma and orthopaedic surgery that sits at 1.40 and then neurosurgery at 1.00 (7).

These land use categories were selected on the basis of the global Land Cover Themes from the GLC2000 data set ( Bartholomé and Belward, 2005). The fictional land use map created for the model application is shown in Figure 3C. The fictional river drains towards a fictional sea in the south and the bare land grid cells (latitude 0) represents a coastline. 2.5.3 Wind Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic. [100] [101] Microplastics and nanoplastics result from the breakdown or photodegradation of plastic waste in surface waters, rivers or oceans. Recently, scientists have uncovered nanoplastics in heavy snow, more specifically about 3,000 tons that cover Switzerland yearly. [102]Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Conceptualisation: YM, TE; Methodology: YM, TE; Software: YM; Validation: YM, TE; Formal analysis: YM, TE, MK, CL; Investigation: YM; Data curation: YM; Writing–original draft: YM; Writing–review and editing: YM, TE, MK, CL, HN; Visualisation: YM; Supervision: TE, HN; Project administration: YM; Funding acquisition: TE. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Funding Ensuring all Plastics Europe policy positions are designed to accelerate the plastics system’s transition towards higher circularity and net zero emissions by 2050 – including the need to transform upstream and downstream GHG reduction and circularity levers.