Medical product recycler says F&P can 'do better'

Medical product recycler says F&P can 'do better'
Oliver Hunt: hospitals are buying products that aren't ethically sourced. (Image: Mark Bridgwater)
Brent Melville
Oliver Hunt, founder and chief executive of early-stage medical device reprocessing firm Medsalv, says Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and other medical equipment makers need to up their game on reducing single-use plastics.Unrecyclable medical waste products add to what the Ministry for the Environment estimates to be about 60 kilograms of plastic waste headed to landfill for each person, or more than 308,000 tonnes annually – about 8.3% of all landfill.F&P Healthcare, New Zealand’s largest listed public company, employs 4,000 w...

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