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Medicinal Products

Medicinal products are important for preventing, relieving and treating diseases. But the use of medicinal products also contributes to a significant environmental and climate impact. In order to have the desired effect during treatment, medicinal products are usually resistant to degradation and are often biologically active even at low concentrations. Residues from medicinal products can therefore have a negative effect on the health and environment during manufacture as well as during and after their use.

Start / Find sustainability criteria / Packaging within hospital care and health care sector / Packaging within hospital care and the health care sector

Packaging within hospital care and the health care sector

The hospital care and healthcare care sector is a purchasing area that involves significant streams of plastic, approximately 30 percent of which consists of packaging and wrapping. By optimising the use of plastic, steering purchases towards sustainable choices and setting sustainability requirements in public procurement, we can reduce the environmental impact of plastics and head towards circular solutions.

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Textiles

The production of textiles has the largest environmental impact for textiles. The environmental impact can be decreased by setting requirements in public procurement aiming at longer lifespan for textiles. Decisions made prior to the formulation of procurement documents may have a large impact on whether the textile can be reused or recycled. There is a web based guide (is Swedish, under introduction) to show ways to reach longer lifespan for textiles.

Start / Find sustainability criteria / Packaging within hospital care and health care sector

Packaging within hospital care and health care sector

The hospital care and healthcare care sector is a purchasing area that involves significant streams of plastic, approximately 30 percent of which consists of packaging and wrapping. By optimising the use of plastic, steering purchases towards sustainable choices and setting sustainability requirements in public procurement, we can reduce the environmental impact of plastics and head towards circular solutions.

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Creative materials

When procuring creative materials, the criteria for toys and creative materials should be used together, since you cannot know in advance if the supplier will offer products CE marked as toys or not. The supplier then applies either the requirement for a toy or the corresponding requirement for creative materials, depending on which product is offered. Examples of product types that are available both as CE-marked toys and as non-CE-marked creative materials, depending on whether they are intended for artistic use or not, are colour pencils, felt-tip pens, crayons, and color tubes. It is the supplier/manufacturer who chooses whether a product is a toy and thus shall be CE marked. Creative materials that are not CE marked as toys have not been tested in accordance with the requirements of the Toys Directive.

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Tyres

Tyres account for 20–30 per cent of a vehicle's fuel consumption and it is estimated that the most energy-efficient tyres reduce consumption by up to 10 per cent. The obligatory energy labelling of tyres for private cars, lorries and buses entered into force on 1 November 2012, and the labelling indicates the tyres' energy-efficiency, their grip in wet weather conditions and the amount of noise they produce.At EU-level, the energy labelling is expected to reduce the total fuel consumption of vehicles by 5 per cent, in the long term.  Lower fuel consumption also means lower carbon dioxide emissions.