Do you have any idea how critical plastics are to medicine? How much more expensive health care would be without them? You could reduce and recycle and in some cases reuse plastics in healthcare, but you cannot get rid of them without significantly affecting the quality of the medical care we all get today.
Nobody’s saying eliminate plastic completely, you don’t need to defend medical uses. Healthcare is maybe ~3% of plastic use (based on very quick googling). I’m sure healthcare plastic use can be reduced, but let’s first go after the 50% of plastic production that’s unnecessarily going to single-serving drinks and food. BTW, in 2024 we use as much plastic for drinks as we produced globally in the year 2000. Plastic production has gone way up, and it doesn’t need to.
