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Medical devices and Waste and recycling

Medical devices buys from Waste and recycling; medical devices depends on waste and recycling.

Medical devices (industry) and Waste and recycling (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.8 per ₹100 · Medical devices buys from Waste and recycling

Medical devices buys goods or services from Waste and recycling; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.8 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.8 of every ₹100 of Medical devices output, all rounds
  • ₹0.2 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Waste and recycling → Medical devices

2 of the enterprise types in Medical devices depend on waste and recycling.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Contract sterilisation providers: emission abatement and waste handling (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Hospitals, diagnostic chains and device-service firms: biomedical waste disposal (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.