Blog posts tagged ‘supply chains’

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24 Jul 2025

Plastics and healthcare: Navigating the balance among access, health, and sustainability

At a WHO workshop, Jeremy Greene outlines the PASS-UP model—a practical framework for cutting single-use plastics in global healthcare.
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24 Nov 2025

Unravelling the healthcare paradox: tensions in sustainable healthcare

A new reflection from CleanMed Europe 2025 explores the unresolved tensions shaping sustainable healthcare: how we balance patient outcomes, budgets, and planetary health, and who carries the burden of driving change. Read the full piece on why confronting these trade-offs is essential for reimagining healthcare’s future.
A deconstructed haemodialysis filter.
06 Jul 2025

Circulations: Pathways of Production, Use, and Discard in Medical Technologies

What hidden stories lie behind the journey of a single-use medical device? How can we use ethnographic approaches and stakeholder collaboration to rethink sustainability in healthcare?
A nurse disposes of a single-use malaria test

Diagnostic waste: whose responsibility?

Academic publications

Diagnostic waste from single-use tests poses serious environmental and health risks in low-resource settings. Responsibility must shift from under-resourced governments to manufacturers, integrating waste management into diagnostic design and global health policy.
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How medicine becomes trash: disposability in health care

Academic publications

Modern health care’s reliance on disposable equipment contributes significantly to climate change. This wasteful practice, driven by fear and efficiency – not necessity – undermines sustainability and demands a return to reusable alternatives.
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