Manufacturing businesses are not generally credited with being the world’s leading environmentalists. Frequently, the procedures necessary to create their products, as well as to employ their staff, lead to the generation of damaging pollutants, waste water, left over manufacturing waste product which is discarded in landfills, in addition to the usual post manufacturing, or post employee, refuse. In this enlightened time of customer interest in “green” manufacturing, there are some businesses who have taken their environmental responsibilities seriously, and created new policy.
Sassy Scrubs, the manufacturer and e-tailer of custom built medical scrubs and doctor’s scrub uniforms, has determined not to join in with ecological polluters. Their Green policy is basic and double edged. Don’t create ecological pollutants and reclaim and re-use materials when it is possible.
This approach has in effect created a satisfying and unusual relationship with their customers. Company President, Karen Bradley, explains “We refuse to offer a print catalog for our scrubs and uniforms, which would generate copious amounts of paper waste and consumption of energy resources to produce and disseminate. We add new scrubs categories for our customers so frequently, that distribution of a mailed catalog would require us to generate regular catalogs, depleting our wood resources and using inks and fixatives which are very environmentally hostile.”
As an alternative, they offer their full line of scrubs on their website and update it on a regular basis, often daily. “This policy allows us to have available the most updated choices for our customers, and keeps catalog production waste out of our local dumps and streams.” states Bradley. Because the business’s customer base is primarily nurses, doctors and dentists, Bradley feels their customer base supports and appreciates their commitment to the environment. “Our clients appreciate that we are striving to help conserve a healthy environment by not contributing to deforestation and pollution of our waterways and they compromise their desire for a physical catalog with the ability to visit our current line of medical scrubs right on their own computer.”
With environmentally friendly policies influencing their approach to business, manufacturing companies like Sassy Scrubs can help make an impact on the reduction of pollutants in our world. Educated and supportive consumers help to support these measures, and take advantage of the greener environment these manufacturers strive to create.
