PVC Medical scrap

The PVC Recovery in Hospitals initiative is a program aimed at collecting used PVC medical products for recycling into useful new products. PVC – polyvinyl chloride: a polymer derived from oil and salt – is a plastic widely used in healthcare. It may be identified on products or packaging by the Plastics Identification Code ‘3’. Plastics are a significant share of hospital general waste. It has been estimated that all plastics account for about one third of a hospital’s general waste, most of which is sent to landfill in United States. Of all plastic waste generated by a hospital, PVC medical products such as intravenous (IV) fluid bags, tubing, oxygen masks and blood bags, are estimated to represent about 25 per cent..

PVC, also known as vinyl, can be recycled relatively easily once it is recovered from the waste stream and has been separated from other plastics or materials. Although a number of recycling programs exist for PVC products such as bottles, pipes and cable, until recently medical products have not been recovered in the United States. Recycling plastics saves energy and conserves valuable raw material resources. A recycled plastic product (including PVC) has approximately one quarter of the embodied energy compared to an equivalent plastic product made with virgin resin. A pilot PVC recovery program was initiated at Western Health Victoria in 2009 which showed that some PVC medical products can be separated relatively easily by hospital staff; the PVC can be recycled in United States and the recycled produced can be re-manufactured into useful new products. The program has been expanded to a number of hospitals, including Liverpool Hospital in NSW. Recycling PVC diverts waste and useful resources from landfill and reduces the consumption of energy feedstock in the production of new products.

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