Resources on plastics and health
- Removing harmful PVC from healthcare: This document provides a comprehensive overview of these risks and highlights the steps that healthcare providers are already taking towards a PVC-free future.(Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2023)
- Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment for immunizations practices: [English] [Spanish] [Portuguese] (Health Care Without Harm, 2021)
- Sustainable procurement criteria for examination and surgical gloves [English] [Spanish] [Portuguese] [Chinese] (Health Care Without Harm, 2022)
- Toolkit - Sustainability criteria for examination and surgical gloves [English] [Spanish] [Portuguese] (Health Care Without Harm, 2021)
- Sustainable food contact materials in healthcare (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2021)
- Chemicals of concern for the health sector: [English] [Spanish] (UNDP and Health Care Without Harm, 2021)
- Chemicals of concern to health and environment: [English] [Spanish] (UNDP and Health Care Without Harm, 2020)
- Sustainable procurement quick guide - Reducing PVC and DEHP in IV bags [English] [Spanish] (Health Care Without Harm, 2020)
- Sustainable procurement quick guide - Reducing PVC and DEHP in medical products [English] [Spanish] (Health Care Without Harm, 2020)
- Report on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in health care: Summary of recent research about the human and environmental impacts of PVC from production to end-of-life, and provides a rationale for choosing alternatives (Health Care Without Harm, 2020)
- PVC/DEHP elimination goal: Elimination goal for safer medical products and devices (Practice Greenhealth)
- Guide for the substitutions of dangerous chemicals in the health care sector [Spanish] (Health Care Without Harm Latin America, 2015)
A - Waste management
- Health care waste trackers (Health Care Without Harm, 2022)
- Infographic: Sustainable waste management - A guide for the healthcare sector (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2022)
- Guidance for immunization waste management: [English] [Spanish] [Portuguese] (Health Care Without Harm, 2021)
- A compendium of zero waste & sustainable best practices from around Southeast Asia for a healthier pandemic recovery (Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia, 2021)
B - Audits
- Measuring and reducing plastics in the healthcare sector [English] [French] [Spanish] [Dutch] [Portuguese] (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2021)
C - Campaigns
- Video: #DoctorsPrescribeNoPlastic (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2023)
- Video: We need to talk about gloves (Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia, 2023)
- Video: Voices from Madrid: A day of training on #PlasticFreeHealthcare (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2023)
- Communication campaign: #PlasticFreeHealthcare (Health Care Without Harm Europe)
- Mobilizing health care to prevent plastic pollution | A toolkit for COVID-19 waste management (Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia, 2022)
- Webinar: Reducing plastic and harmful chemical exposure to children [EN, FR, ES, NL] (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2022)
- Webinar: How to reduce the impact of plastics in healthcare [EN, FR, ES, NL, EL] (Health Care Without Harm Europe, 2022)
- COVID-19 and medical waste management: Plastic issues during a global pandemic - A study of five hospitals in the Philippines (Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia, 2021)
- Mobilizing health care to prevent plastic pollution: A plastics toolkit for hospitals (Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia, 2019)
A - Health Care Without Harm in the Global Plastics Treaty
- Open letter from health professionals on the plastics treaty: Over 6 million health professionals signed an open letter urging plastics treaty negotiators to commit to a Treaty that supports health, human rights, and justice.
- The health care sector’s voice in ending plastic pollution: Health Care Without Harm's submission to the INC-3 of the Global Plastics Treaty (Health Care Without Harm, August 2023)
- Plastics and health: An urgent environmental, climate, and health issue. Position paper prepared for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution (Health Care Without Harm, November 2022)
- Version in Spanish
- Elements towards an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution: A proposal from public health and the health care sector (Health Care Without Harm, January 2023)
B - Policy recommendations
- Towards plastic-free healthcare in Europe (Health Care Without Harm Europe)