Knowledge & perspectives
Evidence-led perspectives for veterinary teams, shelters and procurement professionals.
30 September 2026
Moving from washable plastic trays and bowls to single-use paper equipment does not have to be a practice-wide leap. A selective, staged switch — intake, isolation, discharge — delivers the hygiene and time benefits where they matter first.
Read article30 September 2026
Every reusable tray and bowl buys a hidden second task: empty, wash, disinfect, rinse, dry, restock — repeated for every patient, every day. Here is how to count that time honestly, why it is the first thing to collapse under pressure, and where single-use removes it.
Read article30 September 2026
Kittens, senior cats and post-surgical patients all judge a litter tray by the same details — entry height, size, cleanliness and texture. The feline life-stage guidance sets out what to offer, and a fresh single-use tray makes it easy to meet on every cage.
Read article30 September 2026
Procurement is one of the largest levers on a practice's environmental footprint. Veterinary sustainability frameworks now give clinics concrete criteria — here is how paper-based single-use equipment answers them, and what to ask before you buy anything.
Read article29 September 2026
A shelter or cattery reprocesses litter trays, bowls and scoops more times a day than most clinics. The shelter-medicine and feline guidelines are clear about what that reprocessing requires — and where single-use equipment removes the step entirely.
Read article23 September 2026
Every VOLKOS product is a single-material, plastic-free paper product. That gives the clinic three clean end-of-life routes: clinical or general waste collection, energy recovery through incineration, or — where it is clean and local rules allow — returning to the soil.
Read article23 September 2026
A plastic tray outlasts the clinic that used it by centuries. A VOLKOS paper tray, buried clean and where local rules allow, biodegrades in 90–180 days and becomes a natural part of the soil — with no microplastic left behind.
Read article23 September 2026
On the same modelled basis, a VOLKOS paper tray carries 0.188 kg of CO₂ per kilogram of product — against 3.9 kg for a clinic pee pad and 5.9 kg for a plastic tray. Here is what sits behind those numbers, and why single-material products win.
Read article21 September 2026
Disinfection depends on more than product choice. Reliable ward hygiene requires controlled dilution, sufficient wet contact time, soil removal and stable solutions—supported by measurement and selective use of single-use equipment.
Read article21 September 2026
Household studies link bowl contamination to food type and cleaning practices. For veterinary wards, the findings inform reusable-bowl protocols and clarify which handling steps single-use bowls can remove.
Read article19 September 2026
Does your ward protocol cover the equipment, or only the cage? ABCD and AAHA guidance helps clinics define cleaning, disinfection and disposal procedures for patient-contact items.
Read article19 September 2026
Disinfectant toxicity, the tray that never quite gets sterilised between patients, and the ward minutes spent scrubbing: the ABCD and AAHA guidance behind the litter-tray concerns vets raise most often — and where single-use fits.
Read article19 September 2026
Bedding and litter are changed between patients; the plastic tub underneath usually is not. What a single-use tray changes for recovery wards, isolation rooms and the first two weeks home after surgery.
Read article18 September 2026
Most pet bowls are deep and round out of manufacturing habit, not because they suit the animal. For clinics, bowl shape decides how much usable floor a hospitalised cat keeps, how much whisker contact happens at every meal, and how much handling the bowl demands from staff.
Read article18 September 2026
Feline chin acne is one of the most common skin presentations in small-animal practice — and veterinary sources consistently name plastic food and water bowls as a leading trigger. What clinics can do in the ward, and what to send home with the cat.
Read article9 March 2026
With VOLKOS single-use biodegradable trays, clinics can improve hygiene standards while saving valuable staff time. Why veterinary teams are switching to VOLKOS: Reduces pathogen cross-contamination between patientsUp to
Read article6 March 2026
Every shift, veterinary nurses and technicians do something that rarely appears in a job description: they expose themselves to chemical disinfectants. Again and again, across every reprocessing cycle, every tray wash, e
Read article24 February 2026
Interview – Dr. Alshanti Feb 24, 2026 We talked after clinic hours. No agenda. No script. Just coffee and an honest conversation about daily reality in a busy veterinary clinic — and why one small change quietly made a d
Read article17 February 2026
Reusable stainless-steel trays are widely used in veterinary recovery and isolation settings. Under stable staffing and predictable caseload conditions, they function adequately within established cleaning protocols. How
Read article11 December 2022
VOLKOS — Zoonotic Disease Control Professional Veterinary Solutions VOLKOS Infection control in your clinic The tray your last patient usedis a risk to your next one. Zoonotic pathogens don’t stay with the animal that ca
Read article11 December 2022
VOLKOS — When the Team Gets Smaller Professional Veterinary Solutions VOLKOS For clinics under pressure Staff shortages aren’t going away.But you can work a lot smarter. Veterinary clinics everywhere are facing the same
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