Have you seen Minntech saying reuse is better for the enviroment than single use? Kind of hard to go green when we throw a gazillion gallons of water down the drain everyday.

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Think maybe they are attempting to compare the waste from single use - 1 dialyzer and 1 venous line per patient treatment vs discarding the re-used dialyzer?

I saw their display at ANNA. It was based on saving the environment. With the low cost of single use dialyzers and not having to worry about reuse regulations, staffing and reuse management, what other arguments do they have?

Brutus:
You are right; reprocessing dialyzers requires water. As a matter of fact, reprocessing adds approximately 9% to the total water requirements for a treatment. Now, compare the resources required to provide that additional water to the resources required to manufacture a dialyzer. Brutus – this is a slam-dunk!

Let's think about this comment about a gadzillion gallons of water down the drain a day.The water going down the drain and any water going down any drain will come back to use again and again. There has been no new water created since the beginning of time. Water is our most renewable resource. I admit that we should conserv our water resource's. However when you truly think about it that water will change many forms and eventually come back to us as a cool class of water or better yet as a cube of ice in a tumbler of well distilled scotch...flavored water!

Waste water never comes back as a glass of water. Yes it is recycled but it becomes Non potable water used for irrigation not potable water for drinking or cooking.

Ever hear of the "hydrologic cycle"? Someone needs water class...

Hey Waternerd waste water eventually will end up in a aireation pit what does not evaporate into the sky as moisture (clouds --rain) will get dumped into a lake, river, stream,ocean and then back to ground water or sucked into a municipal water supply. It is just a shorter trip for some water from the waste drain to the tap than for other water. As I said before there is no new water it just goes round and round!