VinylPlus® Med Accelerates Sustainability in Healthcare

VinylPlus® Med Accelerates Sustainability in Healthcare

VinylPlus®, the Voluntary Dedication to sustainable growth of the European PVC trade, unveils as we speak a brand new collaborative mission referred to as VinylPlus® Med. Geared toward accelerating sustainability in healthcare throughout Europe by way of the recycling of discarded single-use PVC medical units, the mission brings collectively hospitals, waste managers, recyclers and the PVC trade.

Enough sorting and recycling of non-infectious plastic waste can considerably cut back the environmental influence of hospitals and their operational prices. Constructing on the success of the VinylPlus-funded RecoMed recycling scheme of PVC masks and tubing, VinylPlus now launches VinylPlus® Med – a collaborative partnership to speed up sustainability in European healthcare.

PVC is the most typical plastic utilized in life-saving disposable medical units together with oxygen and anaesthetic masks, tubing, IV and dialysis luggage. Many of those units, used as soon as and for a brief time period on non-infectious sufferers, could be recycled. VinylPlus® Med is creating a recycling scheme for single-use PVC medical units in Belgium to assist hospitals type their PVC medical waste stream. The scheme will concentrate on clear and REACH-compliant PVC waste that may be recycled into a variety of worth merchandise marketed throughout Europe. “Beginning with a pilot mission in Belgium, we’re excited to make medical plastics extra round along with our companions,” said Brigitte Dero, Managing Director of VinylPlus.

In partnership with the Europe Hospitals, the high-quality PVC waste of three dialysis amenities will probably be collected and recycled. The mission may also associate with Renewi because the waste supervisor and Raff Plastics because the recycler. All Belgian VinylPlus® Med companions are situated inside a radius of 120km, to minimise transport distances and thus mitigate carbon footprint.

COVID-19 has highlighted the essential function performed by single-use plastic medical units within the prevention and management of an infection in hospitals. The surge within the want of such disposable objects has make clear the challenges of correctly managing and discarding them after use. “Inside this context, VinylPlus needed to assist hospitals. In spite of everything, PVC is essentially the most broadly used plastic in healthcare. Most PVC medical waste is non-infectious and could be recycled when correctly sorted and picked up. We have been eager to improve PVC’s recyclability on this vital sector and are delighted to launch VinylPlus® Med,” commented Brigitte Dero.

Evelyn Vass, Operational Director on the Europe Hospitals, commented “On the Europe Hospitals, our focus up to now has been on vitality consumption with the objective to repeatedly cut back our price and environmental footprint. Now we need to focus extra on the environment friendly administration of our plastic waste. Our single-use plastic medical units that we use on a regular basis ought to be recycled. Our employees is motivated to boost the sustainability efficiency of our healthcare amenities.  All of us imagine that it’s our accountability to save cash in addition to protect assets and the atmosphere.”

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In regards to the companions

The Europe Hospitals are a number one hospital group serving the town of Brussels and its surrounding areas. As a multilingual common hospital, they provide complete care at 4 websites: St-Elisabeth in Uccle, St-Michel in Etterbeek/European Quarter, the Bella Vita Medical Heart in Waterloo and the Exterior Session in Halle.

Raff Plastics, being ISO 9001 and EucertPlast licensed, has pioneered high-quality recycling of PVC in Belgium since 1981 and produces 50000 tonnes of plastic recyclate every year.

Renewi is a number one waste-to-product firm that offers a brand new life to used supplies.  The corporate has over 6000 workers working at 174 working websites in Europe.

VinylPlus® is the Voluntary Dedication to sustainable growth of the European PVC trade. The programme was developed by way of open dialogue with stakeholders, together with trade, NGOs, regulators, civil society representatives and PVC customers. Its regional scope is the EU-27 plus Norway, Switzerland and the UK. VinylPlus is registered as a SMART partnership on the United Nations Partnerships for Sustainable Improvement Targets Platform.

For extra info:

Sylvie Famelart, Senior Communications Supervisor, sylvie.famelart@vinylplus.eu, +32 (0) 2 329 51 06