Health Care Actions for Reducing Plastic Use and Pollution
Categories: Low Carbon Sustainable Health Systems, Supply chains, Action Plans for sustainable low carbon health systems, Discussion paper, Global, Americas (Pan American Health Organization)
Publisher: Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
This article describes how plastic waste from healthcare, much of which consists of single-use plastic devices, harms the environment and human health. The authors discuss sociotechnical approaches to reduce healthcare plastics use and pollution and highlight several mitigation strategies including policy and clinical practice changes.