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Many companies are trying to find ways to be more eco-friendly. Your community loves to hear you have these initiatives, and many of them actually save you money. It's no wonder you're making this move! Of course, as a medical office you cannot do anything that puts the high quality care your patients deserve into question. So the question becomes, what can you do to be greener, without sacrificing the cleanliness and care of your facility?

Even if you don't know much about going green, you probably know about recycling. Using the materials from something that's old and turning it into something new is a great way to help the environment. They make bikes from recycled plastic. You can buy shoes made from recycled rubber. You can buy used books. You recycle water bottles. You can buy refurbished computers. Now- you can buy a used phaco handpiece for sale too!

If your medical office is brainstorming ways to meet an environmentally-friendly initiative, this is a great way to do it. If you haven’t yet considered this, take your time to think about the following benefits:

#1 It Keeps Trash out of Landfills. If no one were to buy used goods, there would be no one selling them and therefore there would be a lot of extra products just sitting in landfills. We don’t need to tell you that medical equipment isn’t exactly biodegradable. Purchasing and using a refurbished piece keeps one more piece of metal from sitting and polluting our planet.

#2 Used Phaco Handpieces Don’t Require New Resources. Every manufactured product is responsible for a certain amount of resources consumed, from farming cotton, clearcutting forests, mining for metals, or pumping out oil. This includes your metal phaco handpiece. Anything made of metal is produced deep inside the Earth. The metal must be mined out of the planet, with horrible environmental consequences. Animals are displaced and giant holes in the Earth are dug. Used and refurbished pieces don’t require any new resources to be consumed.

 

#3 Used Products Don’t Require Energy to Create. It isn’t just the material itself, but also the energy that goes into actually making the phaco handpiece. The mining, manufacturing, and shipping of a new product requires quite a bit of energy, from electricity and also from oil. To those who focus on environmental impacts, this is called “embodied energy”. When you choose to buy a phaco handpiece that isn't made with brand new materials, your piece doesn't require much energy, except perhaps the gas required for you to have it sent to you.

 This is one of those fantastic times in life that doing something good for the environment is good for you too. This is because you'll be saving money! Purchasing a used piece means that whatever price you pay is less than the cost of the original piece. You’ll be saving a ton of money, and meeting your “go green” goal. It is a win- win!

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