About 200 million inhalers are dispensed per year, in the U.S. alone — enough to fill about 300 school buses.
“The majority of inhalers end up in a landfill because they’re either recycled inappropriately or they’re just thrown away in household trash,” says Jenna Vande Hey, now a third-year PharmD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy.
But Vande Hey and a team of UW–Madison biomedical engineering students have a solution: a biodegradable bioplastic alternative to the typical plastic sleeve that holds the pressurized medication canister.
Read the full story here: https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/2025/06/11/pharmd-students-emerging-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=discoverx&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=summer2025