AmateurMetronome

While I totally agree with what you're saying I think the companies will provide packaging that meets the requirements set forth by their customers. In this case I would put the onus on the medical community to add ease of recycling to the requirements of the package.

Just like any design pharma packaging has a hierarchy of requirements. Just off the top of my head I'd say that it looks something like:

1. Protect your medical device from the point of manufacturing to the end user.
2. Maintain a sterile environment for the medical device.
3. Ease of use opening/operating container (i.e. ability to open package while wearing PPE).
4. Provide lowest cost materials that meet above requirements.

Until a hospital is willing to pay a premium for an easy to recycle package vs. one that is harder to recycle but cheaper overall then I don't see why a supplier would have any incentives to switch.

This assumes of course that there is added cost in making a package easy to recycle. If there isn't any added cost then I would hope they're already using that material.

Dude! What's the worst gear failure you've had on stage and how did you finish the set?

Oh dude. That made me cringe just reading it. Thanks for sharing though!