Advancing the Circular Economy in Healthcare Original Air Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 @ 1:00pm ET   Description: Hard-to-recycle, single-use supplies, packaging and devices have become a defining feature of the healthcare system in recent decades. Economic and safety concerns and a “culture of convenience” has long stymied efforts to reduce the flood of items like disposable gowns, never-used surgical instruments and endless volumes of blue wrap. This is starting to change. Presented in conjunction with Kimball Sustainable Healthcare, this free webinar – the first…

Making the Case for Reuse and Waste Prevention Getting buy-in from decision makers and the public. Original air date: Wed Sept 6th, 2023 at 1:00pm ET   Description: The last few years have seen a groundswell of startup companies and community-level initiatives working to address structural barriers to the widespread adoption of reuse and waste prevention practices. For many communities, however, the greater challenge is to sell these to decision makers and a general public conditioned on a system of care-free consumption. This webinar featured…

Finding the Path from Single-Use to Reuse EMERGING PROGRAMS THAT REPLACE SINGLE-USE PACKAGING WITH CLOSED-LOOP REUSE BASED INITIATIVES Original air date: October 12th, 2022 at 1:00pm EDT   Description: Waste reduction advocates have sought for years to move beyond recycling to advance practices that reduce & reuse waste at its source. While programs to keep durable items out of the landfill have found some success, it’s been much harder to implement initiatives that systematically displace single-use packaging with reusable alternatives on a wide-scale. That is…