Examples of companies making sustainability progress in the healthcare industries?
Sustainability is beginning to take a foothold in the Healthcare Industry, and will be an integral part of the vendor selection process with Healthcare providers and Distributors. Are there any companies that have made effective in roads in this area, with tangible results and recommendations?
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Kate Putnam
Hi Kevin,
Since much of this requires FDA approval to change processes, it is a slower road for packaging reduction or alteration. Among other things, the shelf life and product protection need to be tested before a firm commitment to making the change can be made. i think you will see changes appearing in the next year as the testing is completed.
Kate
Pharma Packaging - Sustainability Successes
innovative
As a supplier to mostly OTC Pharma, we are seeing the concern being brought to the table in the packaging development process, but cost in most cases wins the fight. We have Post Consumer Recycled Content materials to present and structure design to reduce or reuse.
thank you for the comments; I
kevin mulligan
thank you for the comments; I do believe however that with Med Device, it may happen a bit quicker, particularly on secondary and tertiary packaging.
Summit offers many sources
Anne Marie Mohan
Kevin,
Thanks so much for your discussion topic.
GreenerPackage.com and its sister publications, from Summit Publishing, have many resources to offer on this topic. We have done several comprehensive stories with healthcare packaging companies on their corporate strategies for sustainable packaging.
Among the most notable are:
Also, if you go to the GreenerPackage.com home page, you will find the category of "Pharmaceuticals" listed in our "Markets" section. This area is full of application and news stories related to healthcare packging.
I would also urge you to visit the Web site for sister publication Healthcare Packaging. Under "Hot Topics," look for "Sustainability/environmental," where you will also find a wealth of information.
Information on Healthcare sustainability and packaging3
kevin mulligan
Thanks so much for the help; by the way, I have just written an article and am looking to have it reviewed for publication. Do you know of anyone interested in this?
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Jim Chrzan
Hi Kevin,
I recently atteded Pharmapack 2010 in Paris, and a U.K. design firm went through an exercise that showed the material selection for the device itself, and its strength to weight ratio, had far more impact than packaging or transportation.
http://www.healthcare-packaging.com/archives/2010/02/pharmapack_2010_int...
Other low hanging fruit, reduce thickness of materials when possible, watch out for inks on package and labels, size of outer carton to stack/carton/pallet more efficiently.
As others here have said, due to FDA, patient compliance, etc., green initiatives are coming more slowly to healthcare packaging. But they are coming.
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