For more information on how to build an exceptional recycling program for your healthcare facility, click here. We’ve been building exceptional healthcare recycling & waste management programs for over 35 years. Here’s 10 key secrets we’ve unearthed that’ll help build the collection program you’ve always wanted for your healthcare facility and save you money in the process. Let’s start with the facts. Hospitals and ambulatory healthcare facilities are chief consumers of resources, and they contribute immensely to the generation of waste: American hospitals generate nearly 6,600…

The task of starting a recycling program in an office, school, healthcare facility, a municipality or in the home can seem like a daunting job. Each space has its own specific recycling and waste needs and a program that works for a healthcare facility may not necessarily work for a College or University. Busch Systems is more than happy to help subdue any of the confusion that comes with choosing a Recycling Program! By breaking down the process down step by step it makes it…

Whidbey General Hospital is a public district community hospital on Whidbey Island in Washington State.  Because we are in a rural area, we had no curbside recycling pick-up until 2013.  When curbside recycling came to our facility, we wanted to be prepared and implement recycling for containers, box-board and junk mail.  In planning for this, we consulted our Island County Solid Waste coordinator, Jerry Mingo, who had implemented recycling at the Island County Government offices.  He highly recommended Busch Systems products for their performance, price…

Shari McNamara Joins the Movember Team Barrie, Ontario, November 15, 2012 — An Innisfil woman has joined the “Armour Lip Charmours” Movember moustache-growing team in an effort to raise local awareness for men’s health issues, particularly the need for further prostate cancer research. Although she cannot grow a moustache of her own, Shari McNamara is wearing a “Mo” which is drawn in pencil on a daily basis throughout the month of November. The Movember campaign is an annual event where men across the world grow…

There are several ways in which a program coordinator can keep up enthusiasm at a healthcare facility. For example, a record of the amount of recyclables leaving the facility can be stored and statistics can be generated on the materials recovered. These statistics could be sent out to the media, from which coverage of the facility may fallow. This will positively recognize the efforts of staff and encourage them to continue to recycling in the future.