This document summarizes a presentation about driving circular solutions for healthcare plastics. It introduces the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) and their Chicago regional demonstration project to prove the business viability of a circular system for healthcare plastics. The presentation describes the healthcare plastics product and packaging value chain, from design and manufacturing to recovery and reuse. It identifies challenges in creating circular solutions, such as new packaging schemes being introduced faster than end-of-life plans, and a lack of coordination across the value chain. Lessons learned include the need to convene all stakeholders to systematically develop the new supply chain for circular solutions and understand the economics to ensure continuity.

1. Healthcare Plastics
Driving a Circular Economy – Lessons Learned
Presented to GEMI
27 July 2016
Member Ellen
MacArthur CE
100

2. Agenda
Project Introduction and Context
• Who is HPRC
• Regional Demonstration Project - a value chain
approach
The Healthcare Plastics Product – Packaging
Value Chain
Challenges in Creating Circular Solutions
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3. Who is HPRC?
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) - a
technical coalition working collaboratively to
be a change agent for sustainable healthcare
product and packaging end-of life solutions
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http://www.hprc.org/

4. Chicago Regional
Demonstration Project
Prove business viability and model circular
system requirements
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Project Partners

5. Project Stakeholders
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Material Flow
Information Flow
Hospitals Logistics Providers Recycler End User

6. The Healthcare Plastics
Product – Packaging Value
Chain
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Densification
Functional Products
& Packaging
Supply Value Creation
Design &
Application
Recovery &
Aggregation
Re-Use
Design
Manufacturing
Use
Recovery &
Aggregation
Product
Testing
Molding
Formulation
Primary Output
Clean Plastics
Plastics
Compounder

7. • Introduction of new plastic packaging schemes occurring faster
and faster – disconnected from end-of-life uses.
• Creating a market - who could use the material?
• Devil is in the details - polymers and additive composition
• Formulation
• Molding – Testing
• Product testing
• Designing systems for successful recovery within the user node
of the supply chain
• Logistical Planning – sorting for value and generation of “clean”
plastics
• Densification – baling, grinding, pelletizing
• Creating dialogue between Original Product Packaging Mfr. and
and End-User
• Lack of standards and coordination across value chain.
Challenges in Creating Circular Solutions
Design &
Application
Recovery &
Aggregation
Re-Use
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8. Move from Attitude of Recycling
System Optimization to Systematic
Supply Chain Development
• All stakeholders convene to build the circular solution (RE:
the new supply chain system)
• All stakeholders are committed for the duration – need
champions at each level
• Understand the economics …
• Understanding the various requirements that helps
assures continuity.
• Thinking through economic scenarios that consider
market volatility of commodity markets (RE: know the
tipping points for all stakeholders)
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