Francis Silva undergoes dialysis treatment at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Francis Silva watches the blood flow through a straw-like tube in his left arm to a dialysis machine where it's cleaned of toxins and returned to his body through a second tube.
A nearby room is stocked with boxes of more supplies including plastic saline bags — at least two per patient for each dialysis session.“We came here about 10 minutes ago and it was empty,” Aparicio said. "It would be awesome if we were able to decrease that as much as possible to reduce the environmental impact."
She said more than 20,000 patients in Canada undergo the therapy. There are no established recycling programs for dialysis or medical waste in Canada, she added. "We believe that we need a redesign of the systems that we're using in kidney care, in part because no patient wants to be on dialysis. They're tethered to a machine."
"When people come in for their home dialysis training, they'll say, 'What about all this garbage? Does this all get thrown away?' '' she said. Home-based peritoneal dialysis generates 211,000 kilograms of recyclable polypropylene plastic, or PVC, annually in Canada, along with 55,600 kilograms of recyclable polypropylene, the thin peel-away plastic, according to a study Stigant co-authored and published last November in Kidney International Reports."We're really in our infancy of managing the waste properly.
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