Our ambition is that by 2025, 90% of our packaging is recyclable and 80% consists of renewable materials. Today, 72% is recyclable and 66% consists of renewable materials.   

Our retail boxes and shipper boxes (secondary and tertiary packaging) already consist of renewable materials and are recyclable, and majority of these materials are FSC-certified. In other words, these materials come from sustainable forestry.

The primary packaging for our products often provides key functionalities such as usability and sterility to the products. Therefore, we rarely find plug-and-play alternatives to our primary packaging. Instead, we have to develop more sustainable alternatives.   

We have initiated several projects to make our primary packaging more sustainable  in the future. For example, we have initiated projects aiming to develop more sustainable primary packaging for our intermittent catheters . These catheters currently have packaging with limited recycling potential because of the complex material structures, which are needed to ensure product sterility and shelf life. Our purpose   is to make this packaging more recyclable without compromising on the functionalities. While this work is complex, we expect a significant positive contribution to the environmental performance of these products, which makes it worth the effort.