"Plastic items in hospitals are made above all from different kinds of PVC: flexible tubes (used for feeding patients, delivering oxygen, and monitoring blood pressure), catheters, intravenous containers, blood bags, sterile packaging, assorted trays and basins, bedpans and bed rails, thermal blankets, and countless pieces of labware. **PVC is now the primary component in more than a quarter of all health-care products**, and in modern homes it is present in wall and roof membranes, window frames, blinds, hoses, cable insulation, electronic components, a still-growing array of office supplies, and toys—and as credit cards used to purchase all of the above." ([Location 1776](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=1776)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[plastics]], [[polyvinyl-chloride]], [[innovation]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]