Question

Plastics find extensive use in health care industry why?

Answer 1

Plastic packaging, with its exceptional barrier properties, light weight, low cost, durability, and transparency, is ideal for medical applications. Today's most innovative medical procedures are dependent on plastics. Traditionally, metals, glass and ceramics were used for medical implants, devices and supports.

Answer 2

Plastic is one of the most used raw materials in the modern lifestyle,due to it's cheap production cost and flexible and lightweight physical characteristics.

Plastic made objects are also used in the Healthcare fields,for example;

1)Oxygen tubes are made out of flexible high quality plastic.

2) Injection syringes are also made out of plastic.

3) Plastic is also used for making medicine packages etc.

And many more.