At Work | June 17, 2007 |
Hospital Network Treats Recycling With Care
Just as Benjamin Braddock's potential father-in-law saw a great future in plastics in The Graduate, Legacy Health Systems in Portland, Oregon, is cashing in on recycling by salvaging plastic bottles and shrink wrap.
The hospital network's five facilities save approximately $315,000 annually by separating its waste and reusing or selling the plastics, cardboard and paper that otherwise would wind up as cost items headed to a landfill.
In most cases, recycling waste material has a clear financial advantage. Waste isn't just annoying and bad for the environment, it is bad for business, and many municipalities are legislating companies to "take their medicine" and change processes to eliminate waste. In Portland, recent legislation increased the percentage of mandatory recycling from 50 to 75 percent. While it takes time to sort through waste and reengineer manufacturing processes, in the long run sustainable practices are a sound investment.
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Eric,The council cslcesufulsy carries out millions, literally millions, of transactions every year. It also makes many mistakes as you might expect. As a councillor doing casework on behalf of residents I am often confronted by these mistakes and it is easy to fall into the mindset that everything the council does is crap when in fact the council does a lot of things very well a most of the time. I have been trying to record my direct experience of council services under the “customer services” heading to ensure that I keep some contact with reality. I am very happy to record negative experiences as they arise but also I want to record the many ordinary things that go right too. I am not complacent and I have lots of challenging conversations with officers demanding more and better for residents. It's called balance Eric. I will respond to your list in a posting later.
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