MATTER 360

World Cleanup Day

From Landfills to Lifelines: MATTER 360’s Contribution to World Cleanup Day

In today’s rapidly evolving medical landscape, the generation of surplus medical supplies and equipment is an inevitable byproduct. Advances in medical technology and the constant push for innovation lead to frequent updates and replacements, leaving hospitals and healthcare facilities with a surplus of medical items. While the immediate concern is often about storage and disposal, …

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Medical Relief Kits: Bridging the Gap in Remote Healthcare

Collaborating on today’s story is Dr. Mike Jeans, MATTER’s Director of Medical Projects. His insight and experience as a doctor in Africa were essential to the development of the Medical Relief Kit, MATTER’s newest initiative to elevate the care and dignity of patients in under-resourced parts of the world. The anthropologist, Margaret Mead, was once …

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manufacturers of medical equipment

Manufacturers of Medical Equipment: Repurposing a Sustainable Option

According to Thomasnet.com, medical equipment manufacturing is an industry that produces a wide range of products intended for use by physicians, nurses, hospital personnel, medical researchers, laboratory technicians, and others in the healthcare field. MATTER looks to partner with manufacturers of medical equipment and supplies, as well as hospitals, medical device companies and wholesale distributors …

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Sustainable Solution: Allina Health & MATTER Partner to Repurpose Medical Items

In searching for a sustainable solution to the disposal of their excess supplies and equipment, Allina Health turned to MATTER, a global non-profit committed to helping hospitals with their sustainability and financial issues around expired and excess items through their MATTER 360 initiative. In the U.S. alone, hospitals create non-hazardous medical waste in excess of …

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Celebrating the Power of Partnership for the People of Zimbabwe

What happens when a group of like-minded people come together to share their passion, experiences, hopes and dreams? Magic. That’s the best way to describe what happened last Thursday evening at MATTER when over a hundred people gathered at MATTER’s headquarters in St. Louis Park to celebrate the impact and power of partnership for the …

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