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You and Yours - 16/09/2010

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We explore the latest technology being used to combat infections as a new hospital in Scotland opens with robots that clean the floors, disposable curtains and an ozone laundry. We hear the case for and against proposals to give consumers money back for recycling bottles and cans. A new report has uncovered "fundamental weaknesses" in the cosmetic surgery industry. Every year around a hundred thousand cosmetic surgery operations happen in the UK but problems like inadequate training and equipment, failure to obtain proper consent, inexperienced surgeons are putting patients at risk. We take a look at the state of our nation's high-streets - are they all descending into bland uniformity as one think tank claims? And, Edinburgh is supposed to be getting an iconic new transport system. But an 18 month dispute between its developers is still going on and there's doubt over precisely when and where its trams will run.