What’s the Impact of Sustainability on Disposable Gloves?

A question making the rounds in manufacturing circles is: What are you doing about sustainability?

It has extra resonance in the disposable glove industry. When it comes to sustainability, people have visions of gloves that, after use, disappear into the ether. (Cool idea, but still science fiction at this point.) There is a lot of chatter out there about gloves’ biodegradability or recyclability or compostability, but not nearly enough about how such efforts are essentially futile.

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