Operating rooms contribute greatly to hospital waste and greenhouse gas production. Efforts to "green the operating room" have focused on the 5R's of sustainability: reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink, and research. We propose a "6th R" -repurposing- as simple yet effective means of addressing operating room waste.
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