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READER FEEDBACK
5 Green Ideas
W
e asked readers for their Add Insulation
top eco-friendly initia-
Insulate all the pipes in the boiler
tives. Here's a sampling
room, which heats your building and
of the many great suggestions they
runs your sterilizer units. At my facility,
submitted.
this simple step reduced our energy
expense by $50,000 last year — a five-
Sell Unused Supplies
fold return on the investment.
If you know you're not going to
Sara Deem, MBA
use a product before it expires, con-
University Pointe Surgical Hospital
tact a local surgical facility
West Chester, Ohio
and offer it to them at half the price of
sara.deem@uchealth.com
new. You'll at least recoup some
money, the facility will get
a supply at a bargain price and you
both keep an unused item out of the
trash.
Dixie Hewitt, RN
Marion Eye Specialists
Surgery Center
Designate an empty shoebox for used
Marion, Ind.
batteries. Encourage everyone to
dixie_hewitt@ahni.com
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Recycle Dead Batteries
place their dead cells in it instead of
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