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Hospital plastic gets a second life: €3 million grant opens door to greater circularity in healthcare

What began as a local pilot in the operating theatres of Zuyderland Medical Centre has now grown into a European initiative with global potential. The mission: to stop burning clean plastic in hospital waste and instead recycle it into high-quality materials for reuse in medical applications.
Pile of plastic waste as a result of a single operation in Zuyderland Hospital Heerlen

Chemistry in the kitchen

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Professor of Clinical Chemistry Yvonne Henskens has prepared for this interview by laying out her most important cookbooks and whipping up a fig cake with eggs from her own chickens. “I prefer to make everything myself: bread, cheese, mayonnaise. I want to know how it works—in that sense I’m still a...
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