What is a Life Cycle Assessment? A Life Cycle Assessment is a systematic method for the comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service over its entire existence. The analysis encompasses all stages a product goes through: from...
“Green Surgery” Report: How the UK is Making Operating Rooms More Climate-Friendly “While climate change threatens human health, healthcare paradoxically contributes to this problem.” The Brighton & Sussex Medical School, the...
Our Research & Development Department – What happens behind closed doors? For Science Day, we conducted an interview with Dr. Hagen Thielecke, the Director of Research and Development at Vanguard AG. Dr. Thielecke primarily focuses on advanced medical...
Green barometer for hospitals in the Netherlands After surgery, an imposing amount of waste piles up that has to be disposed. Sounds logical at first, doesn’t it? Nevertheless, hospitals have to be one hundred percent sterile to ensure patient safety. The Dutch...
Remanufacturing en français The healthcare system in France is responsible for over eight percent of national greenhouse gas emissions – totalling nearly 50 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. More than half (55%) of these emissions are attributed to medical products....
“Innovating from Old to the New New!” was the headline from the September in the Berlin Economy Journal. In this edition, the Chamber of Commerce takes a look at Berlin’s circular economy and highlights various companies that focus on waste reduction...
