Jeremy Greene’s Sustainabil-ID presentation traced the historical rise of single-use plastics in healthcare and the emergence of incineration as a dominant approach to medical waste.

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.

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

Alice Street and Maiwenn Kersaudy Kerhoas presented a stakeholder session on diagnostic plastic waste, exploring how measurement tools can support change across laboratories, policy and manufacturing.