Circularity in healthcare starts with a simple question: what is being lost, and how can we preserve or recover it? During this Lunch & Learn session on 11 December, two projects from the EWUU institute for a Circular Society will share their insights.

Are you a teacher, researcher, student or in any other way interested in our collaboration? Every month one of the EWUU programs organizes a meeting about research and education of the alliance. 

Date: 11 December, 2025
Time: 12.15 – 13.00
Location: Online via teams

The Lunch & Learn lectures are held online via Teams. Please register here and you will receive a Teams link accordingly.

Reducing Waste in Childbirth 

Megan Milota (UMC Utrecht) and Ryvann Soerohardjo (Anton de Kom University & Academic Hospital Paramaribo) are studying material use during childbirth in the Netherlands and Suriname. Using a life cycle assessment, they map out differences in consumption and waste, exploring what the Netherlands can learn from countries where creativity and efficiency in healthcare are part of everyday reality. This EWUU project centres on fair knowledge exchange between countries and cultures, supported by an ethnographic film and comparative research. 

Watercare: ⅔ Recover, ⅓ Regenerate 

Waterzorg (Watercare) is an installation and social design project developed by Joes Janmaat (Studio Sociaal Centraal) and Karin Gerritsen (UMC Utrecht, Department of Nephrology) to make visible how much water is lost during kidney dialysis. The installation highlights not only the scale of water loss, but also the possibilities, dilemmas, and communication challenges surrounding water reuse in healthcare.

During this Lunch & Learn session, Joes Janmaat and Guus Crooijmans, dialysis nurse with a focus on sustainability at UMC Utrecht, will guide you through what Waterzorg means in practice: how two-thirds of dialysate can already be recovered, what challenges arise in clinical settings, and which opportunities emerge when designers, researchers, and healthcare professionals collaborate to advance circular water systems.