SUSTAINABILITY ASPECTS
The European trade association for nonwovens, EDANA, has issued comprehensive reports relating to sustainability of hygiene products, see www.sustainability.edana.org .
BOCO FIT™ products open further hitherto untapped opportunities for improvements also in this respect.
Social Aspects
From a user’s point of view
- Healthy skin
- Comfort
- Discretion
- Cost
- Environment
From a care-giver’s point of view
- Better and safer working environment e.g. cleaning of bowel
- Easier handling at product changes
- Avoidance of consequential diseases, e.g. bed-sore
- Less waste
From a social security system point of view
- Higher quality of care taking and related lower cost
Economical Aspects
From a production’s point of view
- Significant savings due to less material usage (main cost driver)
From a distribtion’s point of view
- Significant savings due to less storage and transport requirements, if using e.g. ARCBOND™ core technology
From an environmental point of view
- Significant reduction of carbon footprint (cost of climate change)
From a Social security system’s point of view
- Reduced cost for product, patient care and follow-up efforts
Environmental Aspects
From a Carbon Footprint’s point of view
- Significant material and energy consumption
From a production materials point of view
- More efficient use of materials input
- Use of more ordinary components
From a manufacturing energy’s point of view
- More efficient process units
- Less complex filtration units
From a transportation’s point of view
- Smaller transport volume of raw material and finished products, especially by using ARCBOND™ core technologies