Healthcare Packaging Sustainability

Welcome to Good Information Courses by Plastic Ingenuity. These courses are designed to give a deeper understanding of thermoformed packaging. Now available on YouTube.

Who is this course for?
Throughout this course, you will become familiar with the principles of sustainable packaging. If you’re a packaging engineer, procurement officer, buyer, sustainability manager or packaging development researcher, this detailed course will help you become familiar with thermoforming and how you can impact your sustainability efforts.

Course 3: Healthcare Packaging Sustainability

In this edition of PI Courses, we examine the critical role of packaging sustainability within the healthcare industry—where protecting patient health and maintaining product efficacy must be balanced with reducing environmental impact.

Lesson 1 introduces the healthcare packaging landscape, exploring the unique challenges of designing sterile and effective packaging while striving toward sustainability goals. Lesson 2 dives into the complex regulatory environment, including ISO 11607 requirements, advanced recycling innovations, and evolving policies like the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Lesson 3 focuses on healthcare plastics recycling, highlighting the barriers to recovery, innovative technologies, and collaborations driving progress in this space. Finally, Lesson 4 brings it all together with strategies packaging professionals can use to design more sustainable healthcare packaging, from material choices to waste reduction practices.

This course provides insights into how packaging engineers and industry leaders can navigate regulatory requirements, adopt innovative recycling solutions, and contribute to a circular economy—without compromising patient safety.

Getting Started:
Watch each course one YouTube, by clicking the image, or, view the entire playlist here.

What’s Next:
View the next course in our series, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Video Series.