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Post by dave74 on May 20, 2024 21:53:58 GMT
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cane
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Post by cane on May 21, 2024 14:31:00 GMT
Years ago I worked with a lady from South Africa who was trying to design a "green" dialysis facility. We found out that is much easier said than done. With single us kidney, plastic at every turn (dialyzers, acid jugs, syringes etc.) and ROs that dump thousands of gallons of grey water every month it became clear dialysis is just not that environmentally friendly. We did find ways to reduce our footprint by using grey water for irrigation and toilets, recycling as much packaging as possible and locating the clinic in area where geothermal sources could be used for some power generation but those all come at a fairly high cost in design and execution. I consider myself an environmentally conscience person, and try to think of ways to reduce waste, but a lot of them just won't bought into by the American market.
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Post by Chuck Weddle on May 21, 2024 17:41:42 GMT
Marcor tried to sell a heat exchanger that was installed under a building slab and all machine drain water and reject water from the RO was supposed to preheat the water before the water heater. I don't know if they ever actually sold any.
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Post by eric on May 22, 2024 18:59:09 GMT
This is like the prop 65 label that everything causes cancer in california.......
I know there is a lot of waste from dialysis, but as with anything that is medical, it seems there is a need for it to keep people from getting sick. Are there things that we could do to reduce the amount of waste and should we look at those, sure, but does that mean that we should elevate the environment over people, nope. There are other things we can do to be good stewards of this planet.
We are in the business of keeping people alive because they are people.
Eric
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Post by justabiomed on Jun 18, 2024 13:26:52 GMT
This sounds like battery cars. NIMBY - Fix the problem by causing environmental issues somewhere else, just not in my back yard. If you built a dialysis clinic, then a giant greenhouse to use the waste water they would complain about the giant green house affecting their property values in that neighborhood. I'm all about protecting the environment, I live in it!
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Post by Phillip-Ashley Ludlow on Jun 21, 2024 14:24:07 GMT
I'm all about protecting the environment, I live in it! ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) i love this.
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