HN Summary • Environmental impact: At St. Joseph’s Health Care London and London Health Sciences Centre, nearly 70% of 53,000 inhalers dispensed in 2024 were MDIs using HFA propellants — generating emissions equal to a car circling the Earth 96 times. • Recycling solution: The Go...

Reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink can be applied in Canadian operating rooms (ORs) to increase environmental sustainability, advises a new guideline published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). As the Canadian health care system produces almost 5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and 200...