Green products are everywhere, from water bottles that use less plastic to energy-efficient buildings to jackets made from recycled materials. But one sector that green principles have yet to infiltrate is health care; manufacturers of medical products are focused on safety rather than sustainability. Serge Roux, an industrial designer with the technology design firm Cambridge Consultants, says that those two goals need not be mutually exclusive.
Roux has created a syringe, called the Syreen ("syringe" plus "green"), that maintains the safety features of traditional syringes but might also help reduce waste. "I started the project purely with ecodesign as motivation," he says, "but as we went along, we found it added a lot of other benefits."
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Author: Emily Singer
