Sterile_Technique

US deep south. The only sorting of trash I see in the hospital is sharps vs non-sharps. Outside the hospital, sorting is vitually nonexistent... there's no recycling here, everything just goes in a landfill. It's fucking stupid, but this is what we get for putting Nazis in charge of everything.

No idea how they dispose of it. I've asked my immediate management chain if I can take damaged/pitted instruments that need to be replaced to donate to the local colleges - Anatomy & Physiology classes all have a lab component to dissect something, and the school I went to had instruments that were absolute garbage.

The answer was no... We just put instruments that need to be replaced in a red bin with other sharps like needles, and the bins are shipped off somewhere, probably to be incinerated.

Bigger stuff like equipment, we send to the biomedical engineering department for outprocessing. From there, no idea. Probably land fill.

I wouldn't dumpster dive at a hospital though. It'll be a sea of ruptured catheter bags, linens saturated with poop, and just all manner of pathogens. And probably sharps - that stuff is supposed to go in sealed red bins, but all it takes is one lazy employee and you've got yourself an HIV+ needle stick.

I work in an operating room, and have been around long enough to see multiple pieces of perfectly good equipment get replaced just because it hit the manufacturer's end-of-life date.

I'm talking things like a several-hundred-thousand dollar microscope for microsurgery.

Basically that date means if the microscope fucks up somehow, the vendor takes zero liability, and any legal expenses fall onto the hospital... so we trash it and buy another one. Rinse and repeat after another few years.

That end-of-life date is always crazy early, and is like that 100% because the manufacturer knows hospitals would rather just treat a quarter million dollar microscope as disposable than accept liability for an equipment fault.

The waste is unreal.

If I sell you a 2025 Ferrari then give you a 2011 Honda Civic, I broke the law and you got scammed.

Even if I take the unexpected step of sending you a civic-to-Ferrari conversion kit after the fact that makes the car I delivered somewhat comparable to the one I advertised, that doesn't excuse the initial deception.

What they did was deliberate and dishonest - it's awesome that they've taken (a shit ton of) steps since to make it right, but it'll never be right.

Holding them accountable is not psychotic.

I wanted so badly to believe... so I did... cuz I'm a dumbass.

Idk who decides what in an indie studio, but whatever the job title, I'm talking about those involved in deceiving their customers... and there was a lot of that with NMS.

I was one of the fucking idiots that preordered No Man's Sky. The devs have done a lot to make up for it, so I don't really regret it anymore as it's a decent game now, but at release it was so drastically bare-bones compared to what they advertised that if the legal system actually gave a shit about consumer protection, the staff of Hello Games would have served jail time.

But Sean was a charismatic little con artist, and he cut right past my defense. bUt ThiS gUy'S diFfeReNt!! Bruh I fuckin knew better than that!

Never bothered with putting a tree up, but I've always kinda wanted to steal this idea:

Another stocking.