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The growing desire to embrace sustainability challenges OEMs, suppliers, and other players to join together in the effort to continue to deliver exceptional healthcare products that have minimal effects on the earth.

As a result, more and more product development strategies are being built around optimization of manufacturing, recycling, or disposal to minimize environmental effects. Trends such as device miniaturization and the concern for producing less vaporous emissions are on the rise.

OEMs are relying on the plastics industry as a resource to learn more about alternative materials, design parts with less material, and streamline manufacturing to save energy. To this end, the industry is responding with ongoing research of biodegradable and recyclable plastics, and improving processing methods to help create industry solutions that benefit the planet.