Medical waste has hit the headlines during the Covid-19 pandemic, with billions of tonnes of single-use PPE and diagnostic paraphernalia going to incineration or landfill. A heavy user of single-use products, the healthcare industry, has relatively recently awakened to the environmental impact of this. In this webinar, we will be discussing with experts about the challenges, solutions and opportunities for higher environmental sustainability in manufacturing technologies for single-used medical devices.
By tackling sustainability at the design stage, SMEs could develop products with lower environmental footprint, respecting current or forthcoming regulations, and answering customer demands.
The webinar will:
- Provide an overview of environmental issues in the field of medical devices
- Describe the opportunities brought about by bioplastics
- Explain what is a Life Cycle Assessment and how it can be used by companies to better their environmental sustainability and lower their carbon footprint
- Present innovative sustainable medical devices
Confirmed Speakers:
- Constance Ißbrücker, European Bioplastics e.V., Germany
- Stuart Coles, University of Warwick, UK
- Alfredo Ongaro, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
- Lena Stig, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden
This webinar will be of interest to researchers and manufacturers with experience of developing medical devices, medical device businesses seeking the latest perspectives on environmental sustainability and end users from the healthcare industry.
REGISTER here (this will take you to an external Eventbrite registration page).
This event is part of the Advancing Manufacturing Cluster Builder programme which helps Scottish SMEs access the Advancing Manufacturing Challenge Fund (AMCF) projects whose aim is to have a significant impact on advancing the manufacturing capabilities of SMEs within Scotland, leading to long-term transformational change.
The Advancing Manufacturing Cluster Builder is part-funded by the 2014–2020 European Structural and Investment Fund.
