Oliver Hunt’s company is diverting more than a tonne of waste a week from New Zealand hospitals by helping them reuse “single-use” medical devices.
Hunt spends his working hours as founder and owner of a remanufacturing business, but in his free time, he’s in the outdoors: running, mountain biking, skiing and surfing. They’re two worlds, but in the eyes of the Christchurch entrepreneur, they’re aligned.
In 2017, Hunt founded Medsalv, he says, to make healthcare more sustainable by not only reducing hospitals’ waste and costs, but also creating environmental benefits by keeping products out of landfill and reducing carbon emissions.
“I didn’t want to go out mountain biking and surfing and skiing and then feel like when I went to work, I was
