Maria Koijck: This is the waste of one operation, my operation... (9 March 2021)

Summary

Maria Koijck's goal for this film was to create a movement within the pharmaceutical industry considering the waste it produces.

In this film you see Maria lay in the middle of an incredible amount of waste from just one surgery, her surgery.

In August 2019 Maria was diagnosed with breast cancer. Surgeons had to remove her entire left breast. After a successful recovery, she went to to have a deep lap surgery where they gave her an entire new breast of her own bodily materials.

During this process she discovered that 60% of the surgery materials used for this operation is disposable. For example: the stainless steal scissors that are flown in from Japan, are used for one cut before they end up in the bin.

Maria asked the doctors to collect all of the surgery materials used for her operation, to get a clear idea of how much it really was. She was shocked to see six bags full of plastic waste.