To ensure the safety of patients and workers in hospitals and care centers, large quantities of health safety and single-use personal protection items are discarded after one single use.

In the eight hospitals managed by the Catalan Health Institute (ICS), thousands of gowns, aprons and surgical sheets, along with millions of masks and gloves are sent to landfills for incineration every month, in spite of the high value and potential for recovery of these materials. Mindful of this, the ICS is now looking for ways to reuse or recycle these large amounts of sanitary waste through public procurement.

In the framework of the BRINC project, ACR+ organised a workshop giving the opportunity to the ICS to present its needs, procurement journey and challenges so far, and offered a space to gather insights from other participants to improve its tendering process..

Presentations and relevant documents

• The BRINC project | Joan Juul (CLEAN)
• Presentation ICS journey to procure a recycling and reuse solution for single use sanitary materials | Jordi Rovira Pujadas (Institut Catala de la Salut)
• Preliminary inquiry into the market for the recycling of single-use sanitary safety materials by ICS (in Catalan)
• Needs statement published by the ICS (in Catalan)
• Translation of the needs statement of the ICS (in English)

Recording

Agenda

15:30 - Welcome (Anita Lombardo, ACR+)

15:30 - 15:40 - Introduction to the BRINC project (Joan Juul, CLEAN)

15:40 - 15:50 - Challenges and opportunities for sanitary waste management (Francoise Bonnet, ACR+)

15:50 - 16:10 - ICS journey to procure a recycling and reuse solution for single use sanitary materials (Jordi Rovira Pujadas, Institut Catala de la Salut)

16:10 - 16:30 - Open discussion and exchange of insights