HPRC Media Coverage

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2021
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Advances in Recycling for Health Facilities
Health Facilities Management | August 27, 2021
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Waste Not, Want Not
Medical Device Developments | June 9, 2021
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Discarded PPE Filling Up Landfills and Oceans
CNN Project Planet | April 16, 2021
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2020
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Identifying Recycling and Circularity Opportunities for Healthcare Plastics
Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | December 31, 2020
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Hospitals Under Pressure to "Do Something" about Plastics
Plastics News | May 18, 2020
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First, Do No Harm
Boss Magazine | April 9, 2020
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Ten Desirable Design Practices for Healthcare Plastics
Plastics Today | February 21, 2020
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Investigating Wasted Opportunities in Medical Plastics Recycling
Plastics Today | February 20, 2020
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Medical Attention
Plastics Recycling Update | February 17, 2020
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2019
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How the Medical Device Industry Can Help Save the Planet – as Well as Patient Lives
NS Medical Devices | December 11, 2019
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Sustainability in the Medical Space? It's Complicated.
Plastics Today | October 8, 2019
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Can Medical Care Exist Without Plastic?
National Geographic | October 4, 2019
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A Look at the Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit
Plastics Technology | May 28, 2019
 
Many Hands Make Light Work (page 130)
Medical Device Developments | May 2019
 
Study: Flexible Healthcare Packaging Materials Can Be Recycled
Healthcare Packaging | March 7, 2019
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Do You Consider the Recyclability of Your Packaging?
Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | February 25, 2019
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Group Issues Roadmap to Health Care Plastics Recycling
Plastics Recycling Update | February 20, 2019
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Hospital Takes Aim at Plastic Recycling
Healthcare Packaging | January 31, 2019
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2018
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Recycling Council Studies Multi-material Flexible Plastics Recycling  (page 5)
Healthcare Environmental Solutions News | Summer 2018
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China’s Choice Reshapes Recycling in Twin States​  (HFAB member event)
Valley News | August 8, 2018
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Hospitals Seek Recycling Solutions for Medical Plastics
Health Facilities Management | June 6, 2018
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How the Healthcare Industry is Addressing the Fast-Growing Medical Waste Problem
Waste 360 | May 17, 2018
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US Initiative to Seek End Uses for Recycled Healthcare Plastics
Recycling International | April 4, 2018
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Plastic Packaging Hospital Waste Recycling Initiative Kicks Off in the US
Environmental Leader | March 16, 2018
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Can Healthcare Flexibles Be Diverted from Landfills?
Packaging Digest | March 12, 2018
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2017

Medical Plastics Recycling Debate Takes Center Stage at PLASTEC Minneapolis
Plastics Today | October 17, 2017
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Recycling Medical Plastics Faces Economic Hurdles, Not to Mention the ‘Ick’ Factor
Plastics Today | August 10, 2017
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Healthcare Plastics: Untapped Feedstock, Untapped Business Opportunity
Recycling Today | August 8, 2017
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Nelipak Joins HPRC
Packaging Digest | July 25, 2017
 
Recycling of Medical PETG Packaging: Incorporation into Polyols Suitable for Polyurethane Coating Applications
Recycling Today | March 3, 2017
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2016
 
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Project Identifies Challenges, Opportunities
Plastics Today | February 6, 2016
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Connecting Supply with Demand: An Experiment in Regional Recycling of Healthcare Plastics (print only)
Plastics Recycling | Winter 2017
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The Circular Economy: 10 Innovative Business Solutions and How to Go Further (see page 10)

AmCham EU Circular Economy Brochure 
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Examining the Value of Healthcare Plastics Recycling

Packaging Digest | March 30, 2016

 

HPRC Targets Plastic Medical Scrap

Recycling Today | March 22, 2016

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2011-2015
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HPRC and Practice Greenhealth Present Key Results from Plastics Recycling Survey of U.S. Hospitals

3BL Media | March 20, 2015

 

Setting a Plastics Recycling Benchmark

Greenhealth Magazine | March 16, 2015

 

Plastic Recycling Guide for Hospitals Now Available for Continuing Education Credit

3BL Media | September 16, 2014

 

Exciting Healthcare Recycling Innovations

Plastic Packaging Perspectives | September 12, 2014

 

HPRC and Stanford Hospital & Clinics Conclude Clinical Recycling Pilot

3BL Media | January 9, 2014

 

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Develops Plastics Recycling Guide for Hospitals

3BL Media | April 24, 2013

 

Sustainable Committment

Health Facilities Management | January 2013

 

Medical Plastic Recycling Projects Expand

Recycling Today | November 29, 2012

 

HPRC Works to Improve the Recyclability of Plastic Products in Healthcare

Facility Care | June 2012

 

Healthcare Group to Push Plastic Recycling in Hospitals

Greenbiz | April 8, 2011

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External HPRC Presentations

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