The TRSA-Environ white paper also highlights several solutions to encourage more reusable PPE in healthcare, including ...

Tariffs and supply chain uncertainty are playing havoc with hospitals' purchasing plans, especially for lower-margin products ...

Background Endoscopic procedures are a notable source of medical waste, contributing significantly to environmental pollution ...

That concern pertains to the 1.5 million tons of PPE that ends up in landfills, as the University of Maine found in a pre-pandemic study. Isolation gowns and plastic gloves are top contributors to ...

The environmental impact of medical supplies came into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic — thanks to the alarming rise in use and waste of disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) such as ...

Disposable PPE gowns were used for just about everything during the pandemic. And when COVID ramped up in 2020, hospitals across the U.S. were struggling to find personal protective equipment ...

COVID-19 showed deficiencies in American manufacturing of personal protective equipment such as gloves, masks and gowns, with shortages plaguing the country for months.

Innovative ways to use personal protective equipment have emerged since the Covid-19 pandemic. ... "We were initially wearing disposable FFP3 masks, gowns and visors, ...

According to the researchers, an average of around 54,000 tonnes of PPE is produced globally each day, and around 129 billion disposable face masks are discarded around the world each month.