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Biodegradable bioplastics in healthcare: opportunities, challenges and sustainable recycling

Environmental Sustainability 2025
Noelle ten Boer, Irem Soyhan, Suzan Abrishami, Daniele Parisi, Janneke Krooneman, Jeroen Siebring, Patrick van Rijn

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"This perspective piece highlights that healthcare's heavy reliance on single-use plastics generates significant waste, and argues that biobased biodegradable plastics could reduce this environmental burden — but only if recycling infrastructure and waste management systems are fundamentally redesigned to support them."

Healthcare relies heavily on single-use plastics, creating major waste, as shown in the figure by Maria Koijck (copyright). Biobased biodegradable plastics could reduce this impact, but only if recycling and waste management are redesigned.

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