Breaking With the Need for Virgin Materials in Packaging – Introducing Circularity Without Compromising Patient Safety

Today’s practice of single-use plastic packaging in pharma industry is a waste and emission driver consuming finite resources. As of today, virgin material is applied to ensure patient safety resulting in large quantities of waste. Three pharma pioneers addressed this issue led by the question: How to overcome the need for virgin material, and apply recycled content in a pharma-compliant way?

This session will focus on

• The risks and opportunities in applying recycled material in pharma
• An approach to close the loop for plastic packaging in a pharma-compliant way
• The results of pilot operations at ton scale