Author: Sustainable Health
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Sustainability Curriculum for Grades 3-8
To celebrate Earth Day, we created a week’s curriculum for students in grades 3-8 to learn about the environment and sustainability. Feel free to use the mini-lessons in your classroom during Earth Week or any time of the year!
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Park Clean-Up Days with Village of Hinsdale
We are happy to be collaborating with the Village of Hinsdale in hosting two more park clean-up days this summer! We are having these events on July 23rd and August 27th both at 3pm. By filling out the form below, you can sign up as a group or individual and choose which park you’d like…
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Celebrating Earth Day 2022
On April 21st, Sustainable Health celebrated Earth Day and helped the local community by picking up litter at Hinsdale parks. At the event we had a booth where we were able to collect device donations and raise awareness as to our project that sustainably recycles old devices for patients to access telehealth. Sustainable Health is…
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Telehealth Device Drive!
After receiving success with our last telehealth device drive in 2021, we are excited to offer device recycling opportunities throughout the year! We believe that the lack of devices for some patients is still an important ongoing problem in today’s world exiting the pandemic. Without devices, it can be challenging for some patients to receive…
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Snap the Straps
As part of our Mask Environmental Disposal Project, we have been encouraging our community to “snap the straps” on their masks before disposing of them in our bins. Once filled, these bins get sent to a special recycling center called Terracycle that allows them to be disposed of sustainably. Snapping the straps on your mask…
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Legislative Letter-Writing Campaign and Valentine’s Card Writing
We gathered volunteers to write letters to local representatives to advocate for more environmentally conscious health care legislation! By writing these advocacy letters, we hope to bring awareness to the issues regarding the environment and encourage representatives to create more legislation around environmentally conscious health care. Also, we wrote numerous Valentine’s cards for the hard-working…
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Medical Waste Legislation: From the WHO to Illinois
From the 1970s, legislation was formed to limit the amount of toxic waste being released in our air. Whether that be toxic waste from a gas, object, or liquid, acts such as the Environmental Protection Act and Toxic Substances Control Act were put in place to end pollution of U.S air and waterways. One would…
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A Pollution Pandemic: The Environmental Damage of Disposable Masks
We all remember when there was a shortage of face masks, when we had to make our own reusable masks to allow for healthcare workers to have access to disposable/surgical ones, but now more than a year later the shortage is no longer there. Instead, we have pollution. 2-3 years ago no one would think…
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Mask Environmental Disposal Project
Our current project is focused on collecting used disposable masks, N95 and surgical masks, in the Hinsdale area to send to a special recycling center (Terracycle). The Hinsdale community has 32 local landfills! That means every time we throw away our mask, it’s added to the pile that’s incinerated. And it’s a large pile. Every…
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