Sustainable
Our contribution towards greater ecological sustainability
As a plastics processing company, we believe it is important to take responsibility for future generations. However, due to the high requirements for medical devices and laboratory products, there is no alternative to using high-quality plastic. Therefore, we strive to contribute to more sustainability through a variety of measures.
Our resource-saving product and packaging components and the well-designed concept make the S-Monovette® particularly sustainable compared to other blood collection systems.
The CO2e saving and material reduction were recorded by evaluating the weight and the materials used. To compare blood collection systems, three S-Monovettes were compared with three vacuum tubes, including their respective needles.
The result of this examination clearly highlights the ecological advantages of using the S-Monovette® blood collection system:
40 % weniger CO2e bei jeder Blutentnahme
32 % weniger Materialeinsatz im Vergleich zu Vakuumsystemen
93 % weniger Gummi durch den S-Monovette® Verschluss
33 % weniger Emissionen durch Einsatz von PP statt PET
User-friendly cardboard packaging that allows environmentally friendly production and disposal: The box of the S-Monovette® can be folded flat to considerably reduce waste volume.
The SARSTEDT principle is to minimise the use of raw materials for both the product and the packaging components of the S-Monovette®. The “Guidelines for Green and Sustainable Medical Laboratories” of the EFLM (European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine) Task Force Green Labs set out the requirements for plastics and packaging in Section 5.2.1.1.
Medical laboratories can become certified as a Green Lab, and SARSTEDT supports this by providing product and packaging components that save resources!
More information about Green Lab can be found at greenlabs.eflm.eu
330 S-Monovette® Safety Needles can be disposed of in a 4-l Multi-Safe box. Five times the number of disposal boxes would be required for the same number of needles incl. needle holders from other blood collection systems.
