WaPost article & comment: greening of medicine - eg, removing mercury

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Medicine Gears Up for a Code Green

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802755\

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Tossing out everything from plastic bandages and cotton swabs to

hospital robes after a single use, the U.S. medical industry generates

more than 2 million tons of waste per year, environmental advocates say.

Some of that waste makes its way to incinerators and, when burned,

releases dioxin, merc...

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Binstock

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I'll respect the medical establishment's green sincerity when nurses,

physicians cease to inject pollutants such as aluminum, formaldehyde,

antifreeze, and mercury (1).

[1] http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/080212.pdf

7/22/2008 10:05:56 AM

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