Going Green has been an incremental process at the Bowmanville Veterinary
Clinic.
Our first major step on the green journey
began in 2006 when we transitioned to a “paperless clinic”; this means that we
no longer use paper files to record and keep all of your pet’s medical
information. Now they are stored safely on our veterinary management software
system. All of our exam rooms, treatment rooms, doctor’s office and our reception area
are on a network so all the information is available to us literally at the touch
of a button. It has certainly cut down on our paper consumption and hopefully
saved a few trees as well. Of course we
recycle bottles, cans and paper, uniquely the paper gets shredded and then brought to the
Bowmanville Zoo for baboon enrichment and bedding; they play with it for hours.
We also recycle our used printer cartridges
and work with a company that refills them and brings them back to us. This
effort saves an enormous amount of trash from entering landfill. That is something we feel great about!
More recently we invested in our own
composter which we will use on our garden beds when the compost is ready. It is
hard to say how far along the Green path our clinic will travel, but we
think our focused efforts will have a meaningful impact on our planet, even if
only just a little!!
Sandra McBride
Practice Manager
Bowmanville Veterinary Clinic
