De-identified Interview Summaries on Circular Design and Recovery Pathways for Healthcare Products

This DiCE dataset contains 21 de-identified and paraphrased summaries of semi-structured interviews concerning the circular design, use and recovery of healthcare products. The interviews represent perspectives from healthcare providers, procurement professionals, sterile-services specialists, medical-device and healthcare-technology manufacturers, collection-system providers, reprocessing and remanufacturing professionals, recyclers, producer-responsibility organizations, waste-management specialists, and materials and circular-economy experts. Topics include: procurement and organizational decision-making; reusable and single-use healthcare products; cleaning, disinfection and sterilization; collection and reverse logistics; repair, reprocessing and remanufacturing; component and parts recovery; recycling and secondary materials; bio-based materials; product identification and traceability; regulatory, economic and safety barriers; and opportunities for circular product and service design. Each record describes the broad stakeholder group and sector, the interview focus, what was done during the interview, a paraphrased summary of the participants’ answers, the main barriers identified, and potentially interesting opportunities. To reduce disclosure risk, names, organization names, precise locations, identifiable projects, named products, detailed design information and attributable quotations were removed or generalized. The original transcripts and the private mapping between source files and public record identifiers are not included. Exact duplicate uploads were excluded, and one interview supplied in two consecutive parts was consolidated into a single record. The dataset is provided as an Excel workbook, a machine-readable CSV file and a readable Word document. Because the responses have been paraphrased, the dataset is suitable for thematic exploration, qualitative comparison and research transparency, but not for quotation, linguistic analysis, conversation analysis or verification of participants’ exact wording.