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Understand your CO2 impact and drive your sustainability journey

Understand the environmental impact of your surgical CO2 output as we help you calculate your OR carbon footprint and contribute to circularity

The last thing on your surgical team’s mind when hard at work in the OR is probably how much waste your single-use surgical instruments and drapes generate, or how much more efficiency you could gain from customised procedure-specific surgical trays. But as sustainability becomes a watchword for every industry, the single-use nature of antiseptic surgical environments is also coming under scrutiny by regulatory bodies and even by patients.

While patient safety leads as the most important consideration, hospitals continue to be beset by resource limitations balanced against new regulations that demand more sustainable and circular operations. Add to this equation the difficult-to-calculate environmental aspects of the operating room: from the CO2 expended in sourcing and producing the materials used in the production of OR goods to calculating the logistics of getting surgical trays and drapes and other surgical equipment into the hospital and properly distributed.

But what if you could gain clarity on exactly what impact the CO2 from your surgical business generates?

Sustainability roadmap

Mölnlycke Health Care launched WeCare, the company’s 2030 sustainability roadmap, in 2021. The roadmap charts the actions the company is taking toward a sustainable future and supports the objectives of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WeCare builds on three pillars integral to Mölnlycke’s business approach: Green mindset, Responsible relationships and Ethical business. These pillars influence Mölnlycke’s business models, partnerships, resource management and innovation, and state how Mölnlycke strives to create a work environment where everyone can excel. The WeCare program supports the company’s sustainable growth and determination to take a lead in sustainable healthcare and outlines the short and long-term targets that will ensure our progress, tracking it according to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards or internal KPIs.

These targets include a number of key measurable outcomes within the three pillars. For the green mindset, for example, we will become a net zero company by 2050, 100% fossil-free electricity use at manufacturing sites by 2024, zero waste to landfill at manufacturing sites by 2030, and more. For responsible relationships, we will provide a healthy, safe workplace for an engaged workforce, including a long-term target of zero injuries, gender oarity at director level and above by 2025, five different nationalities in executive leadership by 2025, and more than 10,000 lives improved with our global CSR program by 2025, among other goals. Finally, for ethical business, we act with integrity to ensure that 100% of employees receive annual training or awareness in the ethics and compliance space by 2023, that 100% of employees feel safe reporting concerns without fear by 2025, and that 100% of active distributors have completed our due diligence process by 2025.

Guiding the conversion to sustainability

Our own commitments and verifiable results illustrate our credibility in developing and supporting sustainable healthcare solutions and offering support and consultancy to our customers to help achieve sustainability through our partnership.

Specific tools and standards can help to ensure that healthcare organisations can also achieve these ambitious targets.

Sustainable standards: ISCC-certified solutions

Mölnlycke continuously innovates to offer the most sustainable solutions without compromising on the safety and quality of its products. By applying lifecycle thinking to existing products, the company proactively steers its product portfolios towards improved sustainability outcomes.

International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) sets of universal drapes and a range of surgical gowns offered by Mölnlycke are one example of more sustainable, circular solutions and our commitment to using materials more efficiently. One of the three layers that make up the drapes is made of ISCC-certified renewable, biobased raw materials. As a result, an externally reviewed Life Cycle Assessment 1  showed these drapes to generate on average 20% less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional products.

Calculating a more sustainable footprint

Creating products that fulfil sustainability goals is one dimension of the issue. Detailing exactly how these products fulfil sustainability targets is another challenge.

To help calculate the advantage, Mölnlycke has developed a digital COmeasurement tool that calculates the environmental benefits of choosing an ISCC-certified drape over a traditional product.

Mölnlycke currently offers approximately 20 ISCC-certified drapes, consisting of up to 30% bio-based material.

Demand for products using renewable, bio-based raw materials is particularly high in Scandinavia, the UK and Benelux, and is increasing in other markets as well. The calculator’s model includes the product’s entire life cycle, including Scope 1, 2 and 3.

We are transparent about our impact on the environment, people and society and want to support our partners to do the same.

"The impact is reported both as a percentage reduction and as the actual reduction in kg CO2eq. The calculator serves as an eye opener for customers. We have actually seen customers making a complete turnaround and choosing Mölnlycke’s ISCC-accredited products after using the calculator."

Mikael Olsson Global Marketing Communication and Brand Manager, ORS.

Meie ISCC sertifitseeritud lahendused

Osana meie pühendumusest materjalide tõhusale kasutamisele on Mölnlycke uhke, et omab rahvusvahelise jätkusuutlikkuse ja süsinikdioksiidi sertifitseerimise süsteemi (ISCC) sertifikaate. Meie olelusringi hindamine näitab, et ISCC sertifitseeritud materjali kasutamine võib aidata vähendada meie CO2e heitkoguseid .

Ülemaailmse jätkusuutlikkuse sertifitseerimissüsteemina hõlmab ISCC kõiki jätkusuutlikke lähteaineid, sealhulgas põllumajanduse ja metsanduse biomassi, biogeenseid jäätmeid, ringmaterjale ja taastuvaid energiaallikaid. Lisateavet leiate  aadressilt www.iscc-system.

Allolevas tabelis on üksikasjalikult kirjeldatud, kui palju taastuvaid ja/või ringikujulisi materjale iga meie toode on seotud ja millist meetodit oleme kasutanud.

 

Tootekood
Kirjeldus
ISCC sertifitseeritud protsent
Lähenemine
60054 Universaalne komplekt, Standard 31% Massi bilanss
60800 Kleepuv OP-rätik, lapitud 75 x 90cm 41% Massi bilanss
70200 Kleepuv OP-rätik, lapitud 75 x 90cm 41% Massi bilanss
60530 OP-rätik, 2 kihti 75 x 90cm 50% Massi bilanss
70772 Kleepuv OP-leht, lapitud 175 x 175cm 50% Massi bilanss
70773 Kleepuv OP-leht, lapitud 150 x 240cm 49% Massi bilanss
60500

Kleepuv OP-rätik 75 x 75

49% Massi bilanss
60677 Kleepuv OP-rätik 90 x 75 46% Massi bilanss
60750

Kleepuv OP-leht 175 x 175

44% Massi bilanss
60761 Kleepuv OP-leht 240 x 150 48% Massi bilanss
70300 Kleepuv OP-rätik (mittesteriilne) 90 x 75 46% Massi bilanss
70775 Kleepuv OP-leht (mittesteriilne) 175 x 175 44% Massi bilanss
70776 Kleepuv OP-leht (mittesteriilne) 240 x 150 44% Massi bilanss
70782 Kleepuv OP-leht (mittesteriilne) 300 x 175 51% Massi bilanss
996113 Tugevdatud Mayo aluse kate (mittesteriilne) 14% Massi bilanss
996108 Tugevdatud Mayo aluse kate
(mittesteriilne)
14% Massi bilanss
483100 BNS ISCC kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP L 88% Massi bilanss
483101 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP L-L 91% Massi bilanss
483102 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XL 90% Massi bilanss
483103 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XL-L 93% Massi bilanss
483104 BNS kirurgiline kittel Primary Plus SP XXL-L 91% Massi bilanss
483105 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XXL-XL 91% Massi bilanss
483106 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XXL-XXL 91% Massi bilanss
493100 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP L 63% Massi bilanss
493101 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP L-L 65% Massi bilanss
493102 BNS kirurgiline kittel Primary Plus HP XL 66% Massi bilanss
493103 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XL-L 67% Massi bilanss
493104 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XXL-L 69% Massi bilanss
493105 BNS kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XXL-XL 70% Massi bilanss
493106 BNS kirurgiline kittel Primary Plus HP XXL-XXL 69% Massi bilanss
583100 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP L 88% Massi bilanss
583101 Kirurgiline kittel Primary Plus SP L-L 88% Massi bilanss
583102 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XL 87% Massi bilanss
583103 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XL-L 90% Massi bilanss
583104 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XXL-L 89% Massi bilanss
583105 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XXL-XL 89% Massi bilanss
583106 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus SP XXL-XXL 91% Massi bilanss
593100 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP L 61% Massi bilanss
593101 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP L-L 65% Massi bilanss
593102 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XL 65% Massi bilanss
593103 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XL-L 55% Massi bilanss
593104 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XXL-L 67% Massi bilanss
593105 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XXL-XL 69% Massi bilanss
593106 Kirurgiline kleit Primary Plus HP XXL-XXL 69% Massi bilanss
944217 Anesteesia eesriie 26% Massi bilanss
944218 Laparoskoopia jagatud leht 71% Massi bilanss
944219 Laparoskoopia abdo-perineaalne lõhestatud leht 51% Massi bilanss
60340 Universaalne komplekt, Standard 36% Massi bilanss
60900 Universaalne komplekt, Basic 30% Massi bilanss