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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.

Open call: artist in residence

An open call for eight artists to join research teams across eight global locations to explore plastic, healthcare and the possibilities of a more circular future.

Toxic Asepsis at AAHM 2026

In June 2026, Eloïse Richard and Bruno Strasser presented ‘Toxic Asepsis: Chemical Sterilization and the Rise of Disposable Medical Devices in the 20th Century’ at AAHM.

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.

Exploring the future of medical devices at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2026

After the Single Use researchers Alice Street and Millie Marriott Webb joined Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2026, using the Deconstructing Devices project and an Innovation Stage presentation to open up conversations around medical device lifecycles, sustainability, and material transparency.

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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.
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.
5 Jun 2026 · 12:00pm

Environmental Justice and the Historian

Historians of health and medicine have something unique to offer and to learn from close engagement with environmental justice: as a historical moment, as a mode of historical analysis, and as a mode of engaged history.

21 May 2026 · 2:30pm

Plastics Research Forum at the University of Edinburgh

The first Plastics Research Forum brings together researchers from across the University of Edinburgh to share work on plastics, sustainability, health, design, engineering, and society, while exploring opportunities for future interdisciplinary collaboration.
31 Mar 2026 · 11:00am

CRCF convenes first National Advisory Committee meeting in Senegal

Researchers and stakeholders gathered for CRCF’s first National Advisory Committee meeting to review early findings on single-use medical plastics, biomedical waste management, and future directions for research in Senegal.
19 Feb 2026 · 4:00pm

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.
6 Feb 2026 · 10:00am

"Waste & Wasting”: Mapping research on waste at the University of Edinburgh

After the Single Use co-organised a University of Edinburgh workshop bringing together researchers from across disciplines to explore waste, waste work, and waste landscapes. The event highlighted shared concerns around value, labour, plastics, pollution, and the infrastructures that shape how waste is understood and managed.
7 Nov 2025 · 9:00am

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.

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