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NAM Climate and Health Summit 2026

Jeremy Greene participated in the NAM Climate and Health Summit 2026, joining discussions on plastics reduction and the metrics needed to support more sustainable healthcare.

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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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.
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.
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,…
8 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.
12 NOV 2024

Levi Symposium: The value(s) of disposability in health care

At the Levi Symposium, scholars and practitioners explored whether healthcare must trade safety, efficacy, or efficiency for sustainability—or if durable, low-carbon alternatives can achieve all.
7 NOV 2024

History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2024: Plastic Temporalities

At the 2024 HSS Annual Meeting, Jeremy Greene convened the roundtable Plastic Temporalities: Ecologies of Disposability in Science and Medicine, bringing together historians and anthropologists to examine the material histories…
4 FEB 2024

Clean and dirty: hygiene and medical waste

Our team at CRCF in Senegal organised a two week workshop for research assistants in the Social Sciences.

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