A new Deconstructing Devices video explores the material composition of a single IV catheter, revealing the multiple plastic components and hidden infrastructures embedded within everyday medical devices.

Millie Marriott Webb presented research on the human and environmental impacts of single-use medical plastics at the student-led SoMA 2026 Medical Anthropology and the Technocene conference.

Jeremy Greene presented ‘After the Single Use: Rethinking the Role of Single-Use Plastics in Healthcare’ as part of the 2026 Institute for Health and Society seminar series.

After the Single Use researcher Akhilesh Bonthu presented new research on the use of single-use plastics in forensic autopsy settings at the Telangana State Annual Forensic Medicine Conference 2026.

Researchers and stakeholders gathered for CRCF’s first National Advisory Committee meeting to review early findings on single-use medical plastics, biomedical waste management, and future directions for research in Senegal.

Akhilesh Bonthu reviews ‘Waste of a Nation’, examining how histories of waste, inequality, and consumption shape contemporary environmental and healthcare challenges in India.

'Sterilisers' is a new essay by Alice Street and Jeremy Greene in The Matter of Hospitals edited by Anna Harris that explores sterilisation as a hidden infrastructure shaping reuse, labour, and material flows in hospitals.

At a symposium in Aarhus, Alice Street explored how healthcare facilities function as sites of plastic waste and pollution, raising questions about toxicity, infrastructure, and global health.

Alice Street presented research at HEAT 2025 examining the rise of medical plastics as a core healthcare infrastructure, and the growing challenges they pose for environmental and human health.

After the Single Use researchers participated in a cross-disciplinary workshop exploring waste research across the University of Edinburgh, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, environmental humanities, and the arts.