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out of the landfill,
we've also created a
fun and creative out-
let for staff, patients
and patient family
members.
As the medical
director of sustain-
ability, I'd been told
that the huge num-
ber of caps that we
were throwing away
every day, which, by the way,
come in a variety of beautiful col-
ors, were too small to recycle
unless they were collected and
bagged separately. At the recy-
cling plant, they typically fell
through the cracks, because the
sorting machines couldn't handle
such small objects. So we
launched an initiative to collect
and recycle them.
Then I had an idea. The vial
caps were extremely small and
colorful, and they reminded me of
sand art I'd seen some Tibetan
monks create at a conference I
• VAST NUMBERS The initiative made a strong statement about how large numbers of small things add up over time.
Karin
Zuegge,
MD
• BOTTLE CAPS In their spare time, staff at the University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine use hot glue guns to make bottle cap art.
Karin
Zuegge,
MD
