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Eye care practices and especially eye surgery centers are important contributors to paper, plastic and even metal pollution.
Eye care has a significant carbon footprint, which is a factor in climate change, an existential threat to us all. Potential achievable solutions include decreasing the unnecessary excess paper and plastic associated with medical product packaging, increasing reusable medical products and recycling medical product waste. I recently wrote a perspective on the efforts of EyeSustain