Millie Marriott Webb examined how ISO 13485 records detailed medical-device material information, while gaps in access limit its use for safety and sustainability.

Alice Street, Mary McPoland, Claire Lindsay and Maiwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas examined how plastic cassette housing became standard in lateral flow testing—and the histories that challenge its apparent necessity.

Dani Farrow traced how the loss of hospital sterilisation infrastructure has locked Scottish healthcare into dependence on single-use plastics.

Cat Acheson and Rob Ralston examined how plastics are being reframed as a human-health emergency within negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty.

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi examined how HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns expanded the use of disposable products while creating new waste-management pressures in Tanzania.

Jeremy Greene revisited the medical “plastics problem” of the 1960s and the regulatory sciences that helped earlier evidence of synthetic harms to be forgotten.

Bruno Strasser and Eloïse Richards examined how toxic ethylene oxide gas enabled the expansion of disposable medical plastics while its risks were made less visible.