Sustainability and disposable duodenoscope’s – is “green endoscopy” achievable? First results from a prospective national recycling project

Aims Single-use devices and equipment have been widely adopted in flexible endoscopy and currently almost all reusable accessories are abandoned due to hygiene, medico-legal and economic reasons. During the last 10 years also single-use endoscopes were deployed in the clinical routine, mainly in bronchoscopy and recently for duodenoscopy (ERCP) and gastroscopy to eliminate the risk of cross-contamination. We evaluated the recycling process of single-use duodenoscope (aScopeDuodeno; Ambu A/S, Denmark) in routine clinical practice