Sustainability is based on a simple principle: everything that we need for our survival and wellbeing depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations. A common driver for sustainability efforts is citizens’, and other stakeholders’, concerns for the environment.
Hospitals produce a large amount of waste and contribute significantly to landfill and incinerated waste streams due to the high amount of single use products and plastics used in the hospital setting.
Many hospitals are now setting up sustainability committees to review and reduce hospital wastage, eliminate plastics and single use products, by moving to multiuse alternatives. In order to support these efforts, Medical + Optical offers a range of multiuse use sterilisation baskets, sterilisation containers, hollow ware and surgical instruments.