Medical Plastics News spoke to Jared O’Connell, general manager, healthcare packaging, Honeywell to discuss the news of the new Aclar Impact Estimator.
Packaging waste has grown to represent more than 40% of total waste produced in the US and abroad. Gary S. Cohen, SupplyOne sustainability packaging specialist, discusses why manufacturers should prepare for the future of packaging.
Dijam Panigrahi, co-founder and COO of GridRaster, a provider of cloud-based AR/VR platforms, explains how medical manufacturers are leveraging AI, IoT, AR/VR to achieve corporate sustainability goals.
Some of the latest figures from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), show that as little as 9% of the 460 million tonnes of plastic waste produced each year is recycled, while 22% is mismanaged and disposed of incorrectly.
Renewable and recycled drop-in solutions enable the production of more sustainable plastics for various applications, including sensitive medical ones.
Plastics are an essential component of countless medical devices, from syringes to catheters to prosthetic limbs. Mesbah Sabur, founder of Circularise, discusses the plastics industry’s impact on how the environment has become too extreme to ignore.
