A green new deal as medical devices go circular

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A green new deal as medical devices go circular

Oliver Hunt Medsalv founder
Medsalv founder Oliver Hunt, 25, is a young entrepreneur passionate about stopping the health sector from clogging landfills and wasting dollars by throwing out potentially reusable medical devices

Nobody expects a patient’s pillowslip to be “single-use only”. But an estimated 1700 tonnes of equally reusable medical devices are tossed in landfills each year, says award-winning young entrepreneur Oliver Hunt. Fiona Cassie finds out more

Oliver Hunt is an engineer by profession, but medicine is in his blood. His 94-year-old grandmother and late grandfather were GPs, his mum is an endoc