Laboratories, whether in academic, R&D, industrial, or hospital settings, rely heavily on single-use plastics, which provide the benefits of sterility, safety, durability and quality for the healthcare industry. However, they often come with significant environmental consequences. Only a fraction of the plastic waste is recycled, much of which is uncontaminated and recyclable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hear how Polycarbin<\/a>, GreenLabs Recycling<\/a>, Research Recycling<\/a>, Republic Services<\/a> New England, and MassRecycle<\/a> address the medical plastics waste problem using sustainable and circular practices. The roundtable will discuss Massachusetts waste bans and the importance of collaborations for enabling sustainable innovations in recycling medical plastics from labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Participating companies will provide information on quantifying and reporting lab waste and giving second life to single use plastics by integrating recycled materials back into manufacturing supply chains. Pilots and partnerships that companies have developed to drive sustainable innovation will be highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n View the Recording on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laboratories, whether in academic, R&D, industrial, or hospital settings, rely heavily on single-use plastics, which provide the benefits of sterility, safety, durability and quality for the healthcare industry. However, they often come with significant environmental consequences. Only a fraction of the plastic waste is recycled, much of which is uncontaminated and recyclable. Hear how Polycarbin, GreenLabs Recycling, Research Recycling, Republic Services New England, and MassRecycle address the medical plastics waste problem using sustainable and circular practices. The roundtable will… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnewengland.org\/prp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}