Operating room in St. Antonius Hospital was a major environmental polluter: ‘Comparable to driving a car 3 million kilometers’

Operating room in St Antonius Hospital was a major environmental

Blue caps, new gloves, nail brushes, surgical instruments: all materials in the operating room must be sterile. “Until recently, the packaging material of surgical instruments was burned, which is extremely polluting to the environment. Now it is recycled,” says surgical assistant Mariska de Jonge.

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