... Programs. for Surplus Equipment, Furniture, Medical

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Reuse Programs

• for Surplus Equipment, Furniture, Medical
  Office Supplies

John Leigh DHMC Recycling Waste Programs
Coordinator Lebanon, New Hampshire 603-650-7719 jo
hn.leigh_at_hitchcock.org
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Design programs that

• Run themselves or require minimal coordination
• Avoid warehousing
• Minimize internal handling
• Rely on recipients to transport
• Turn material over quickly
• Work with what resources you have

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Options for Furniture Office Equipment

• Email bulletin board Trading Post
• Triage site (reuse, donate, recycle)
• Various donation outlets

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Trading Post
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Receipt of bulletins as e-mails
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Can review postings anytime
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Triage site
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Determining disposition
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Donation
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Donation options

• Affiliate or local hospitals clinics (group
  email to materiel managers)
• Local schools (ditto)
• Staff (For Free signs on items near exit)
• Regional materials exchanges
• (WasteCap, Craigslist.com, Freecycle.org, etc.)

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Office Supplies

• Room devoted to reuse of supplies
• Widely distribute Office Clean Out Tips
• Electronic bulletin board - great for larger
  amounts of one item (e.g., box of binders), items
  of greater value (e.g., unused toner cartridges)

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REDU room

• Drop off or pick up items
• Self-monitored
• Open 24/7
• Doubles as a recycling satellite collection point
  (toners, bulbs, batteries)

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Medical Supplies Equipment

• Marked boxes on pallets Donation to
  organizations that consolidate materials and
  coordinate with charities
• Northeast examples Intl. Medical Equipment
  Collaborative, American Medical Resources
  Foundation, Institution Recycling Network
• Cherry picking of boxes Individual staff
  embarking on medical missions, carrying supplies
  in luggage