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ach year, operating rooms gener-
ate hundreds of millions of
pounds of blue wrap, which is
often sent to landfills for a most
improper burial. What to do with
all that polypropylene plastic your facility pro-
duces? Instead of crumpling up your blue wrap
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
Memorial Hermann Surgery Center | The Woodlands, Texas
Blue Is the New Green
The team at Memorial Hermann Surgery Center
has found many innovative uses for blue wrap —
both in and out of the OR.
Jeannette Sabatini | Associate Editor
• FINDING PURPOSE Memorial Hermann Surgery Center
staff reuse blue wrap to catch runover prep.
Mary
L.
Chiasson,
RN
• GENTLY USED Alyssa Pytel, CST, places a stapler into a
single-use device reprocessing collection bin.
Mary
L.
Chiasson,
RN
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