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Going green.

Alison Moore
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While citizens are being encouraged to become 'green' and recycle household and garden waste, the NHS is lagging far behind. Clinical waste has to be disposed of in a safe way, much 'domestic' waste could be recycled and save trusts money--as some hospitals in the United States have found.

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Alison Moore. Going green.. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.19.31.24.s24

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