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Healthcare Sees $138M Benefit From Environmental Stewardship

Jennifer Berry, January 13th, 2009

Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a leader in the medical device industry, announced that their medical device remanufacturing/reprocessing eliminated 4,300,000 pounds (2,150 tons) of waste from local landfills in 2008. Additionally, these practices saved Ascent's 1,800 hospital partners around the country a record $138,142,000 in supply cost and waste savings. The company works to reprocess (clean, test/verify, package and sterilize) and remanufacture (disassemble, ... read more

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HP Electronic Trade-In Program Expanded

Lori Brown, January 13th, 2009

Hewlett Packard (HP) aims to tackle the growing problem of electronic waste with a new consumer trade-in and recycling program. The HP Consumer Buyback and Planet Partners Recycling Program allows consumers to earn cash back for their unwanted electronics, which will then be refurbished for future use or recycled. The program allows consumers to send in: PC's Monitors Printers Digital Cameras PDA's Smartphones "As part of the HP ... read more

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Tagged basics, cellphone, computermonitors, computers, ideas, noteworthy

Published in Electronics


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