Using fewer medicine cups is the smartest first step. But getting rid of them entirely is almost never possible. For every cup that remains there is Plastilose: grown from bacterial cellulose, with 96% less CO2 than a plastic cup.
The Dutch platform Samen de zorg vergroenen developed a strong intervention to cut the use of medicine cups, for example by making a cup patient-bound and reusing it. That delivers the biggest environmental win and we recommend every ward to start there.
Read the original intervention: Reduce the use of medicine cups, Samen de zorg vergroenen (in Dutch).
Source: environmental analysis by Samen de zorg vergroenen, calculated per 30ml cup.
In practice it is rare to leave out every cup. At many moments a cup is simply needed and reuse is not an option:
That is exactly where our addition comes in: replace the cup you cannot reduce with Plastilose.
The Plastilose 30ml medicine cup: performs like plastic, grown from bacterial cellulose.
For every plastic cup you cannot reduce or reuse, replace it with Plastilose. Emissions per cup then drop by 96%. Our cups are also biodegradable and lower in emissions than paper cups.
Stopping entirely with 1,000 plastic cups saves 11.2 kg CO2. Replacing them with Plastilose saves 10.75 kg. You keep 96% of the win, while you carry on working exactly as before.
Maasstad Ziekenhuis is our first Founding Partner and is starting with plastic-free medicine cups made of bacterial cellulose. Reducing and replacing are put to work together on the ward.
We compare one Plastilose cup with the reference value for a plastic 30ml cup (0.0112 kg CO2-eq) from the environmental analysis by Samen de zorg vergroenen. The Plastilose figure comes from our own cradle-to-gate life cycle analysis, which compares low-temperature fermentation on agricultural residual streams with conventional polypropylene production. The result is a deliberately conservative 96% lower emission per cup.
We use cautious assumptions for raw materials, production and end of life. The real saving is expected to be higher. That keeps the claim defensible toward procurement and sustainability teams.
Combine both steps. Reduce first where you can, then replace the rest with Plastilose. Run them at different times so you can read the effect of each step separately from your purchasing data.
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