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A new study says it's time to start recycling anesthetics


Times are tough for everybody but are they ‘recycle our anesthetics’ tough? A team of researchers says yes.
Healthcare can be an important source of greenhouse gas emissions. It accounts for around 5% of all emissions in the UK, for example, or around 10% for the US, a new study from the University of Exeter explains. Inhaled general anesthetics make up a significant part of that, as they are potent greenhouse compounds and very little of them are broken down in the bodies of patients.
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The authors explain that recycling these substances can thus have a meaningful and beneficial effect on the climate. An hour-long administration of two common anesthetics, sevoflurane and desflurane, produce around 1.5 and 60kgs of carbon dioxide equivalent, they add. However these figures don’t take into account emissions from the anesthetics’ manufacturing process, meaning the total figures are much higher. ....

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