GE Healthcare’s +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle for contrast media offers significant advantages over traditional glass packaging, including decreased cost of waste disposal, reduced storage, and improved workplace safety for healthcare workers who administer contrast media to patients. +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle achieves these benefits through its patented design and pharmaceutical grade polypropylene composition, which result in smaller, lighter, and safer packaging than glass.
Environmental Benefits
By switching from glass packaging to GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle, a radiology department can reduce its waste disposal costs. For example, a radiology department that purchases over 11,700 bottles of contrast media per year can realize savings of more than 75%, or $600 in bottle disposal costs annually, by switching to GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle.
Operating Benefits
By using the innovative GE Healthcare +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle, a radiology department can reduce the weight of its contrast media red bag waste by more than 75%. For example, a radiology department that purchases over 11,700 bottles of contrast media per year can reduce annual contrast media red bag waste by 3,500 pounds by using GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle instead of comparable glass packaging.
