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This cluster is about standardizing and streamlining the measurement of environmental impact through tools like Lifecycle Assessments (LCA), waste audits, and the development of new product evaluation metrics.

This cluster focuses on exploring opportunities for industrial symbiosis and collaboration between the life science sector and other industries in the region to leverage waste and energy streams.

This cluster is dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment, driving innovation through challenges, and ensuring the sharing and scalability of best practices across the life sciences sector.

This cluster focuses on advocating for and implementing regulatory frameworks, such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Right-to-Repair laws, to make circularity a mandated practice across the industry.

This cluster aims to drive a fundamental cultural shift towards circular practices by educating staff, engaging stakeholders, providing practical tools, and establishing an expert workforce.

This cluster leverages advanced digital technologies like AI, blockchain, and telemedicine to enhance transparency, optimize logistics, streamline experiments, and reduce the environmental impact of healthcare delivery.

This cluster is dedicated to optimizing the consumption of energy and water in laboratories and hospitals through technology upgrades, process optimization, and heat recovery.

This cluster encourages a shift towards service-based and collaborative models by promoting leasing over ownership and establishing sharing platforms for underutilized assets.

This cluster focuses on embedding circular principles into purchasing decisions using new metrics, smart ordering systems, and policies that prioritize sustainability, longevity, and reduced waste.

This cluster focuses on integrating circular principles into the built environment—laboratories and hospitals—by using sustainable, modular construction, optimizing resource use, and enhancing energy efficiency.

This cluster aims to minimize the environmental footprint of transportation and storage by implementing reusable shipping containers, optimizing transport routes, and promoting sustainable vehicle fleets.

This cluster focuses on transforming waste streams—particularly plastics and chemicals—from a disposal burden into valuable resources through advanced recycling, chemical valorization, and effective product take-back schemes.

This cluster aims to significantly extend the functional life of products and equipment by prioritizing reusable alternatives, establishing robust refurbishment programs, and promoting a fundamental shift away from single-use models.

This cluster focuses on innovating the materials used in lab supplies and medical packaging by switching to bio-based or recycled content, optimizing design for recyclability, and reducing overall material volume.

The core issue addressed is the high environmental cost of the Swiss healthcare system's reliance on single-use medical products. This issue is driven by rigid regulations and financial incentives that favor disposables over reusable items, despite the latter being ecologically and economically superior. The proposed solution is a shift to a Circular Economy through tariff reform, CO2​ transparency, and more flexible regulations to encourage reuse.

BaselCircular is a public-private partnership of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and the Eckenstein-Geigy Foundation, and it supports Basel-based companies in transitioning to circular business models.

Johnson & Johnson sets new standards for recycling processes in Swiss hospitals