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The Opportunity with
Healthcare Plastic Resources
Over 5,000 US Hospitals
5.9 Million Tons of
Waste per Year
1.2 Million Tons of
Clean Plastics Available
Easy to identify products …
High quality materials …
PP PP, PET, PETG, PS
PP or PVC“Blue Wrap” PP
PP, PET, HDPE
Tyvek® (HDPE) with PP Tray
“One hospital doesn’t
generate enough
bales to make a
business…”
The dilemma …
Differing Priorities Existing Contractual arrangements Dynamic plastics Market
Varying models of Recycling
Current situation in waste management…
Chicago Demonstration Project
Testing for a solution …
Multi-hospital plastics recycling project in Chicago
Demonstrate a viable business
model for recycling healthcare plastics.
Target is to recycle 100 tons of plastics over next 12 months
Chicago Demonstration Project
Participants from across the value chain …
Hospitals
Waste Services, Recyclers
End-Users and Service Providers
Project Sponsors:
Effectively extracting materials from current processes
Immature infrastructure; demand pull will be led by the entrepreneurs
Getting all stakeholders to raise their hand!
Challenges that still need solution
What have we learned in scaling our efforts?
What have we learned in scaling our efforts?
Sorting creates the real value
Longer-term thinkers needed
Recycler needs to collaborate
with hospital to set up recovery
systems
Hospital needs to be motivated
to act
Next Steps!
Questions?