AD syringe plastic recycling
Plastic of disposable syringes have been recycled for several years in Ukraine. As an HIV/AIDs
2002 survey describing the disposal of used syringes in Ukraine have shown 27 companies used
“thermoplast” machines for recycling plastic. At this time, 8 of them had a license to recycle the
plastic of disposable syringes. Until the pilot project took place, none of these companies had tried to
recycle the plastic of AD syringe. In 2004 Roksana in Kiev was the first company to try, followed by
Polymet in Kaminiets‐Podolsky. After experimenting and monitoring this kind of recycling, the
option of reprocessing the plastic of AD syringes appears to be a feasible option: