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3 Steps to Reduce Red Bag Waste

Thinking before you throw can benefit your bottom line.

Sherry "Twig" Hemenway, RN, BS, CNOR

If you haven't taken steps to reduce the amount of red bag waste in your facility, you might quite literally be throwing money away.

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