What do you do with waste?

We all use specialist products in our work in optometric practice. Once these products have served their purpose they are then disposed of in various different ways and using various different waste streams.

If we are going to think of running an ethical practice then we should start thinking about what happens to these products when they are disposed of and what environmental impact that disposal has.

This article focuses on what happens to some of the specialist waste material produced from optometric practice.

The waste we produce is ultimately going to end up either being put into landfill or incinerated. There is a process that the waste goes through before reaching its end destination and it is this waste stream that there is scope to improve on.