Jeffrey Whitford, Vice President of Sustainability and Social Business Innovation, MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Originally published by Fast Company.
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / September 10, 2026 / The world only needs so many park benches.
Back in 2015, we launched an industry-first biopharma recycling program to address the new and fast-growing challenge of single-use plastics. At the time, the industry was shifting away from stainless-steel manufacturing systems toward single-use technologies, such as disposable bioreactor bags, filters, and assemblies used to produce life-saving therapies.
Sustainability drove this transition, even if it didn't look that way at first glance.
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