What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration from these precision mechanical systems to create Bracesys, a revolutionary approach to fracture immobilization that challenges everything we thought we knew about medical casts. Traditional plaster casts have remained largely
This stuff isn’t getting recycled, we barely manage recycling PET bottles, a pretty pure material and ubiquitous material, and that’s mostly down cycled to polyester fiber which isn’t really recycled unless you count burning trash as recycling.
Maybe there is some opportunity for reuse as claimed in the article.