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Greener Building Materials - rbonplaza - 10-12-2007
This is a short part of a memo sent to Kaiser employees by the CEO regarding efforts to build greener buildings. Thought it might be of interest:
"We’re also saving roughly $300,000 per new medical center by replacing PVC pipe with safer HDPD (polyethylene). PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is a dangerous and environmentally-unfriendly plastic material that is used widely in the health care industry. When manufactured and disposed of, it creates dioxins, the most potent carcinogens known, as well as other compounds that may cause severe health problems, including cancer and birth defects. We deliberately make construction choices that do not use PVC. We also set a new national standard for environmentally safe hospital carpets -- and managed to get manufacturers to change production specifications because we can buy in such volume."
Edited by - rbonplaza on 10/12/2007 14:48:12