# Medical devices and Waste and recycling

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/medical-devices-and-waste-and-recycling/

[Medical devices](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/medical_devices/) (industry) and [Waste and recycling](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/waste_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.