RLG India Promotes Sustainable Healthcare Practices at IRACON 2025

New Delhi: RLG Systems India Pvt Ltd, an industry leader in circular-economy and e-waste management solutions, showcased its commitment to environmental responsibility at IRACON 2025, India’s largest rheumatology conference held from 9th – 12th October 2025 at Yashobhoomi, IICC, Dwarka, New Delhi. As the Sustainability Partner for the event, RLG India emphasized that healthcare and sustainability were intrinsically linked, and that responsible biomedical waste management was essential to patient safety and planetary health.

Through the implementation of several eco-friendly practices, the company reduced the environmental footprint of the four-day event, exemplifying how on-ground initiatives during large healthcare events can be conducted in an environmentally responsible way, minimizing waste and pollution. Across all exhibition levels, lanyard-reuse boxes, seed-paper pens with the message “Write. Grow. Repeat.”, and segregation-guided bin stations promoted conscious waste practices. Visitors were encouraged to adopt the color-coded biomedical-waste segregation system developed under RLG’s awareness program:

•    Yellow: anatomical, chemical, or soiled waste

•    Red: contaminated plastics

•    Blue: glass and metallic implants

•    Black: metal sharps

Beyond behavioural change, RLG presented technological innovation through the Vermilion Biomedical Waste Solution — a stainless-steel, smart disposal system manufactured by its U.S. sister company ARXG, supported by Reconomy Group UK. Vermilion features GPS tracking, sensor-based monitoring, and an integrated online portal for real-time documentation and cradle-to-grave traceability. Its suite of patented universal liners, sharps containers, and medication-disposal envelopes is designed for complete safety, regulatory compliance, and environmental efficiency.

This initiative reflects RLG India’s broader goal of embedding circular-economy thinking within healthcare, from promoting segregation at source to facilitating extended producer responsibility (EPR) compliance for biomedical waste. The collaboration between RLG India and Vermilion symbolizes a close association between global innovation and India’s healthcare sustainability ambitions.

Ms Radhika Kalia, Managing Director, RLG Systems India Pvt Ltd, said: “We believe that making the healthcare sector truly sustainable would indeed define the advancement of the domain. Sustainability and healthcare must go hand in hand, and every item used in a hospital — from a syringe to a glove — must be treated as a responsibility that extends beyond its use. Through platforms like IRACON 2025 and innovative technologies such as the Vermilion Smart Biomedical Waste System, we aim to help India’s medical community see waste management beyond just compliance; we seek to contribute towards integrating sustainability in everyday practice. It is our strong conviction that responsible disposal is not an expense; it is an investment in safer hospitals, cleaner environments, and a healthier tomorrow.”

RLG India continues to work closely with hospitals, pharma companies, and policymakers to strengthen India’s waste-management ecosystem through awareness, infrastructure support, and technology-enabled compliance systems. By integrating its expertise in e-waste and biomedical waste management, the company is helping drive India’s transition towards a cleaner, circular, and resource-secure healthcare future.