Brightmark, a global waste solutions provider, and Jamar Health Products, a Wisconsin-based health care product manufacturer, today announced a strategic partnership to recycle plastic medical waste.
Brightmark provides a sustainable and circular solution for recycling and converting Jamar’s proprietary plastic PATRAN slide sheets into low-carbon fuels and the building blocks for circular plastics.
Jamar created PATRAN slide sheets for lateral transfer 40 years ago. Starting with the original disposable slide sheet, the company sells a variety of sizes and styles of single-patient, multiple-use slide sheets for safe patient-handling and mobility (SPHM) tasks including boosting up patients in bed when they start to slump down. As health care facilities nationwide started using PATRAN slide sheets, caregivers, including nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and SPHM coordinators, started getting creative. Jamar has come up with more than 25 ways to use PATRAN slide sheets for SPHM tasks by hospitals, surgery centers, long-term care facilities, EMS and other health care operations.
