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Combine and conquer

February 1, 2009

One clinic goes green and saves some green with eco-friendly tips. How to save paper, money, and the environment.

One way to cut costs by saving paper is to merge related handouts. Brent Dickinson, business manager at Dickinson-McNeill, PA Veterinary Clinic in Chesterfield, N.J., first started combining client handouts when he noticed how much white space each had. "After a pet was spayed or neutered, we used to hand a client two sheets of paper, one for at-home care instructions and one for the township certificate our city issues," Dickinson says. "Now we hand them one."

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The top part of the clients' form includes instructions, and the bottom part features the certificate that clients can cut off for the township. This merger alone saves the clinic a couple hundred sheets of paper a year and helps meet its publicized eco-friendly goals. (See related reading for entire list of goals.) To further their environmental efforts, team members also strive to:

  • Use all possible pieces of scrap paper, such as shredding it to replace litter for feline overnight cases.

  • Car pool in the company-owned hybrid vehicle, if not walking or riding a bike to work.

  • Reduce energy wasted through overseas shipping and purchase goods made in the United States.

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