The wasteful side of knee replacements

Knee replacements improve the lives of the people in need, yet it has a very wasteful side too. The knee replacement procedure creates about 30 pounds of waste, and about half of it is biohazardous material that needs to be disposed of in an energy-intensive safe way.

 

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