Prescription home delivery shippers go green

OptumRx switches from EPS to cotton-based recyclable, resusable, compostable, and biodegradable insulating pads for its temperature-sensitive medication home delivery packaging.

OptumRx has replaced EPS with an insulating pad made from 100% renewable cotton wrapped in recyclable LDPE film.
OptumRx has replaced EPS with an insulating pad made from 100% renewable cotton wrapped in recyclable LDPE film.

OptumRx specializes in pharmacy care services, catering to more than 66 million people in the U.S. through its network of over 67,000 retail pharmacies and home delivery centers. Given its scale, almost any effort it makes toward increasing the sustainability of its packaging can have a notable impact. With its recent switch from expanded polystyrene to a renewable material that is biodegradable, compostable, reusable, and recyclable for its refrigerated home delivery packaging, the company projects reductions in CO2, water, and energy in the millions of pounds, gallons, and kilowatt hours, respectively.

OptumRx provides home delivery of specialty and maintenance medications, including temperature-sensitive prescriptions such as those used to treat cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, hematology, and autoimmune patients. The temperature range that must be maintained for these refrigerated medications is 2ºC to 8ºC.

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