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OR Excellence 2019 Awards - September 2019 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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project is too big or too small, and everybody's ideas get due consider- ation, says Ms. Opalko. As a result, Monongahela reduces, reuses and recycles in a number of novel ways. • Plastic wrap park benches. Through a partnership with NexTrex, Trex Company's retail recycling program, the hospital recycles the plastic outer wrap that covers virtually every surgical instrument and supply. Already, the composite decking leader has made 2 public park benches from Monongahela's plastic wrap. How it works: NexTrex provides the hospital with labeled recycle bins to collect the plastic wrap. After the hospital accumulates 500 pounds (that's 40,500 plastic films and bags!), NexTrex col- lects the wrap and creates a public bench that is placed in an area of the hos- 8 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 © 2019 Bemis Mfg. Co. 800.558.7651 • HCG@Bemismfg.com • www.bemishealthcare.com Bemis QUICK-DRAIN™LVDQHIÀFLHQWDQGVDIH ZD\WRGLVSRVHRILQIHFWLRXVZDVWHQUICK-DRAIN HPSWLHVVXFWLRQFDQLVWHUVTXLFNO\DQGVDIHO\ LQWRWKHVDQLWDU\VHZHUV\VWHPZKHUHSDWKRJHQV FDQEHHIÀFLHQWO\SURFHVVHG&DQLVWHUVUHPDLQ VHDOHGSUHYHQWLQJVSLOOVDQGFRQWDPLQDWLRQ1R QHHGIRUFKHPLFDOVVROLGLÀHUVRUH[WUDWXEHV ²ZDVWHWKDWFDQRFFXS\ODQGÀOOVRUZRUVH Go to www.Bemishealthcare.com to see how QUICK-DRAIN delivers an environmentally sound liquid waste disposal solution. Bemis makes fluid waste disposal a little greener.

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