2025

A prescription for change: Rethinking plastics use in healthcare to reduce waste, greenhouse gas emissions and costs
Published by Systemiq and Eunomia | September 2025

 

Closing the Loop: Sustainability and Circular Design
Standardization News | July/August 2025 Issue

 

Can Hospitals Be Sustainable? Rethinking Plastics in Health Care
Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, “The Energy Forum” | July 22, 2025

 

Sustainability Stakeholders Sound Off: Highlighting Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Packaging
Medical Product Outsourcing | June 12, 2025

 

Healthcare packaging an untapped chemical recycling feedstock: report
Waste Dive | April 18, 2025

 

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council continues exploring chemical recycling

Packaging Dive | February 21, 2025

2024

How to Transform Healthcare Plastics Circularity
Plastics Engineering | June 28, 2024

 

HPRC Makes Strides Toward Advanced Recycling in Healthcare
Healthcare Packaging | May 15, 2024

 

6 Healthcare Package Recycling Updates

Healthcare Packaging | April 19, 2024

2023

Full-circle solutions for sustainability in the healthcare industry

Medical Plastics News | September 11, 2023

 

Enabling a More Circular Future for Medtech Packaging

Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | July 31, 2023

 

How Can We Make Healthcare Plastics More Recyclable?

Packaging Digest | July 17, 2023

 

Three Key Aspects When Designing Sustainable Healthcare Packaging

Medical Plastic News | March 3, 2023

 

2022

B. Braun and Lehigh Valley Health Network Partner to Recycle Medical Plastics Material

Recycling Today | October 18, 2022

 

How Should US Health Care Lead Global Change in Plastic Waste Disposal?

American Medical Association Journal of Ethics | October 2022

 

Where Cyclyx, ExxonMobil, McKinsey and Casella See Chemical Recycling Going Next
WasteDive | September 30, 2022

 

Plastic Waste in Healthcare: Finding Solutions

MedicalExpo e-Magazine | July 18, 2022

 

5 Ways to Be an Environmental Steward in Your OR
AORN Safe Surgery Together | May 22, 2022

 

9 Sustainability Initiatives in Healthcare Packaging: Earth Day 2022

Healthcare Packaging | April 22, 2022

 

Sierra Magazine | March 22, 2022

 

2021

How Do Recycled Materials Fit with Healthcare Packaging?

Healthcare Packaging | December 24, 2021

 

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

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

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

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

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​