Your Social and Ecological Footprint in Our World

I recently wondered to myself, “What kind of a charitable impact do companies who make Nursing Scrubs have in this world?” What made me so nosy is that we do a fair amount of charitable works here at Sassy Scrubs, and I wanted to see what other scrub companies were doing to help their communities and the world abroad.

That question sent me on an interesting search. Over the next few days, I spent a considerable amount of time poking around on the websites of other Scrub companies. What I found was puzzling, and somewhat disconcerting. Sadly, I found that not only was there no information about the charitable works of other scrub manufacturers or uniform retailers, but there was barely any information available about their companies, period. These discoveries made me sincerely think about the responsibility each and every one of us has to contribute - as a business or as an individual - in some way to make our world a better place.

As a Company, Sassy Scrubs currently champions several social and medical movements; such as Breast Cancer Awareness, Autism Awareness, and the American Cancer Society. We support our injured military members through the frequent donations of scrubs and other needed items to the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project. We help to keep orphans in China warm through our own Blankets for Babies Project, where we send baby and kid sized blankets and quilts directly to orphans in need. Most recently, we’ve launched an orphan vocational assistance & training program through our Orphan Hope Market, giving orphaned and abandoned children hope for their futures.

On the ecological front, we donate our fabric scraps to local organizations, who in turn make colorful and needed quilts and blankets for Veterans, shelter animals, displaced children, hospice residents, and newborns. We recycle our office paper, cardboard, plastic and cans. Paper which cannot be recycled due to containing propriety or sensitive information is shredded for use at our local Humane Society as bedding. In this age of advanced technology, we trust our customers to appreciate that we have chosen not to produce a print catalog, saving tons of paper waste, ink, dyes and chemicals, from polluting our world. We make a very marked and conscious effort to keep our footprint in our local landfills as small as possible, while at the same time, keeping our commitment to our community as large as possible.

Here at Sassy Scrubs, we think these issues are important enough to address with you, our customers. We have often wondered why other scrubs companies don’t talk to their customers about these subjects. Is it because they don’t care? Or do they presume to think their customers don’t care about these very important issues? Well, we think you do care.

We hope you’ll think about your own impact on our world when you next order new scrubs. We want you to knowthat we’ll be responsible - just like we know you are - in helping to take care of our world. We care about taking care of our planet, just like we care about taking care of you, our customer, with the best custom scrubs, made just for you. It’s part of who we are here at Sassy Scrubs. And we just wanted to let you know.

We hope you’ll think about your own impact on our world when you next order new scrubs. We want you to know that we’ll be responsible - just like we know you are - in helping to take care of our world. We care about taking care of our planet, just like we care about taking care of you, our customer, with the best custom scrubs, made just for you. It’s part of who we are here at Sassy Scrubs. And we just wanted to let you know.

Healthy New Year

With the New Year here so quickly - where did 2010 go! - I've made my new resolution. I resolve to take better care of myself in this next 10 years, than I have in the last. Since you wear nursing scrubs, you know most of what I'm talking about. That's right, I vow to eat better, get more rest and exercise, and have all those amazing and not always pleasant diagnostic tests which we are so lucky to have available at our disposal.

Besides these obvious steps, I vow to keep my temper better. To listen more, and to interrupt others less. To smile more and find that elusive silver lining more often. To worry less about things I can't control. And to allow others to express their opinions, without adding my "but..." to the conversation. I hope to read more, about more diverse subjects, and therefore to learn more about the world, and myself. I hope to become a better person this year, and this decade, than I ever have been in the past. A better person, a stonger part of my family, a more dedicated friend. I want to be honest, generous of spirit and time, and dependable. I want to be fun and happy. I want to be healthier for myself and for my family.

A new year focuses our attention on new possibilities. Possibilities we can become, and circumstances we can change. I hope you take the opportunity to reflect on who you'd like to be this year. How you can be healthier too. Our possibilities are indeed endless, for a Happy New Year.

I Don't Recycle

Yep, that's what the State of Georgia says in their current social marketing program to bring attention to environmental responsibility. The shocking claim is meant to show how ridiculous we all sound if we do not recycle and do our part to help clean up our community and our environment. Apparently their approach has been pretty effective and has resulted in a 50.7% increase in recycling in their state! Way to go, Georgians!

Here at Sassy Scrubs, we have always recycled. From our office paper to our scrap pieces of fabric, we generate almost no trash to clog up landfills and waterways. In fact, did you know that Sassy Scrubs uses our scrap fabric to create blankets and quilts, which we then donate to orphanages in China? That's right - we generate a good amount of scrap fabric and it virtually all gets recycled. We're pretty sure that we are the only hospital scrub company in the USA who can make that claim. Since we custom make all our nursing scrubs right here in the USA, we have control over our own environmental responsibilities. I wonder if those nursing scrub companies who manufacture overseas can say that they know what happens to the scrap fabric and paper refuse generated in their factories....hmmmmm. And if they do, are they acting responsibly?

So you won't hear Sassy Scrubs making the statement which has made Georgians sit up and take notice. We have always recycled while we make your hospital scrubs, and we always will.