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A researcher lays out the different white and blue materials found in a gown and mask on a grey floor.

12 May 2026

After the Single Use partners with NOBA on international artist residencies

After the Single Use is collaborating with NOBA, Norway’s first permanent BioArt platform, to develop a series of international artist residencies exploring healthcare plastics, waste, and circular healthcare systems.

Bruno Strasser reads his book The Mask while wearing a mask.

09 Dec 2025

Bruno J. Strasser’s The Mask shortlisted for Nature's best science writing 2025

The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, co-authored by After the Single Use researcher Bruno J. Strasser, has been shortlisted for a leading science writing award. The book has been praised for its richly illustrated, global history of respiratory masks and its timely reflections on how societies navigate risk, protection and public health.

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01 Oct 2025

The Plastic Hospital: After the Single Use panel at EAHMH 2025

After the Single Use researchers convened a panel at EAHMH 2025, exploring the histories and infrastructures of medical disposability.

Professor Anne Kveim Lie talking in an academic setting with three figures in the background.

01 Jun 2025

Norwegian health publication ‘Dagens Medisin’ feature After the Single Use

Anne Kveim Lie spoke to Norwegian health publication ‘Dagens Medisin’ about disposable medical equipment, healthcare waste, and the growing need for systemic change.

Two people are sat at a desk in a beige room. One of them is holding up a large sheet of paper with a body diagram that organises departments like organs.

19 Feb 2026

Crisis Acres (2025) — Screening & Q&A with Tom K Kemp

After the Single Use presents a screening of Crisis Acres (2025), exploring NHS systems through simulation, followed by a live Q&A.

Alice Street and Millie Marriott Webb amongst an array of POCTs at the pop-up lab.

07 Nov 2025

Deconstructing Devices at POCT for Scot

Every year at POCT for Scot, global and local Point of Care Test suppliers alike assemble to discuss industry advances and promote their technologies to the delegation of researchers, healthcare and laboratory professionals.

Hands wearing gloves are taking apart medical devices.

22 May 2026

Deconstructing Devices at MAE Vienna

At MAE 2025, Alice Street and Millie Marriott Webb’s lab dissected single-use medical plastics, tracing lifecycles and waste to rethink anthropological approaches to devices and environmental impact.

A panel discussion with members of the project team at EAHMH 2025

28 Aug 2025

Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Plastics in Medicine

At EAHMH 2025, team members organised a panel exploring medicine’s shift to plastics, examining disposability, supply chains, waste, and sustainability while rethinking consumer culture and evolving medical care practices.

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24 Jul 2025

Plastics and healthcare: Navigating the balance among access, health, and sustainability

At a WHO workshop, Jeremy Greene outlines the PASS-UP model—a practical framework for cutting single-use plastics in global healthcare.

27 May 2025

Pop-up Exhibition and Reception

The project team are holding a pop-up exhibition exploring the production, circulation, and disposal of single-use medical plastics.

Image of Khoudia Sow with a blue vase behind her.

13 May 2025

15th Scientific Days CRCF/ANRS MIE: Rethinking medical device for reuse, renewal and resilience

At the 15th Scientific Days organised by the Regional Centre for Research and Training in HIV Care (CRCF), Khoudia Sow introduced After the Single Use to an audience of Senegalese,…

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08 Apr 2025

SCORAI Europe Conference 2025: Discarding well? How grassroots waste initiatives advance intersectional justice

Cat Acheson shares research on grassroots waste initiatives and intersectional justice at the 2025 SCORAI Europe Conference.

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