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Art-science collaboration: visualising biomedical waste at Fann Hospital

Explore the creation of a 110-meter mural at Fann Hospital, Dakar, a collaborative initiative between the AtSU project, ENAMC students, and local artists. This report details how participatory art was used to translate research on biomedical waste into a powerful public awareness tool, fostering dialogue on health and environmental sustainability.
22 Sep 2026 · 9:00am

Deconstructing Dialysis: sustainability, equity and toxicity in haemodialysis

Join us for an interactive workshop forming part of a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust-funded After the Single Use project and the University of Vienna’s Imploding Dialysis project. This event brings together representatives from healthcare, policy, academia, and industry to explore the social, material, and environmental dimensions of dialysis.

After the Single Use at MedExpo Africa: Driving Dialogue on Sustainable Medical Plastics in Tanzania

Researchers from the After the Single Use project recently convened in Tanzania for a series of engagements centred around MedExpo Africa. These activities highlighted the strong, ongoing partnership between the project's established Tanzania-based unit - including researchers at the Amani Medical Research Centre, NIMR-Tanzania, and  Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) — and colleagues from the U.K. and Norway.

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Single-use plastics in healthcare for Sustainabil-ID

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.
14 Jul 2026 · 8:00am

Plastic Amnesias at HSS 2026: forgotten histories of plastics and health

At HSS 2026, two linked Plastic Amnesias panels explored how evidence of plastic harms, reusable technologies and material alternatives has been repeatedly obscured or forgotten across medicine and global health.
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Why is my medical test cased in plastic?

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.

Plastic essentiality and forgotten sterilisation infrastructures

Dani Farrow traced how the loss of hospital sterilisation infrastructure has locked Scottish healthcare into dependence on single-use plastics.
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HIV/AIDS prevention and the overuse of single-use devices in Tanzania

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

Following waste through Fann Hospital

A new article shares findings from CRCF’s ongoing ethnographic research into plastic and biomedical waste management at Fann Hospital in Dakar, Senegal.

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