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- Our prescription for climate change: reduce and recycle inhalers!
I applaud the author for their timely insights into the environmental impact of the myriad of inhalers we prescribe. I am sure if we are honest each of us have a handful of patients using
more than 42 salbutamol metered dose inhalers (MDI’s) per year – a figure that equates to the greenhouse gas from one car per year.1 Perhaps we should cycle to work until we have completed a salbutamol overuse audit?Joking apart, it
Show Moredoes seem that reducing and recycling MDI’s ought tobe a priority given our current climat...Competing Interests: None declared.