Quest for Sustainable Pills

Published on April 26, 2022

The production of medicines is currently very polluting. A pharmaceutical company produces on average no less than 25 to 100 times the weight of the pill in waste. This must and can be done differently, believes biotechnologist Gerrit Poelarends of the University of Groningen. Read the full article using the link provided.

https://ukrant.nl/magazine/drug-production-is-polluting-this-is-what-gerrit-poelarends-is-going-to-do-about-it/?lang=en

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