MedCity News November 14, 2024
By conducting audits, embracing new technologies and switching products, labs can dramatically reduce plastic waste without sacrificing life-saving discoveries.
As groups across the healthcare sector look to make their work more sustainable, one of the toughest challenges involves life sciences. In the process of creating new drugs and other remedies, the industry has an outsized negative impact on the planet.
“It’s estimated the global pharmaceutical industry accounts for approximately 52 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalents annually — roughly 4.5 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions,” according to Rutgers University assistant professor Mary Bridgeman. The industry’s high carbon footprint comes from numerous factors, including “single-use, unrecycled plastics, designed and assembled in ways that make them almost impossible to recycle on the...
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