From the ACTION Innovation Network:
Join us for the first in a series of online Winter Roundtables, Servicing #Labs and #Recycling Models for #Medical #Plastics, to be held on 12/10 from 10:30am-12:00 pm.
These roundtables will lead up to our second edition of the #Medtech #Sustainability Forum in the spring. Plastics are a major component in medical devices and used extensively in laboratories, providing the benefits of sterility, safety, durability and quality for the healthcare industry. But these often single-use plastics come with significant environmental consequences.
Only a fraction of the plastic waste is recycled, much of which is uncontaminated and recyclable. Recycling medical plastic waste is possible if properly coordinated between the healthcare and recycling industries. Hear the latest from innovators on how they are tackling this medical plastics waste problem using #sustainable and #circular practices. The roundtable will discuss Massachusetts #waste bans and how #partnerships enable sustainable innovations in recycling medical plastics from labs.
Innovative companies will provide information on quantifying and reporting lab waste and giving second life to single use plastics by integrating recycled materials back into manufacturing supply chains. Pilots and partnerships that companies have developed to drive sustainable innovation will be discussed. Sam White Gretchen Carey Anushk Gupta Noah Pyles James O’Brien Cormac O’Prey Cliff Emmons Richard Meiklejohn Jeffrey Champagne Mary Ann Picard Conor Carlin Rachel Robinson https://lnkd.in/enm_EGYs
