Yanaroot’s Sustainable Practices
From light bulbs to clinic cleaning products, tools and supplies to medicinals—Yanaroot strives to provide sustainable services using mindful practices and products that support a sustainably healthy future for people, plants, and the planet.
Clinic Products
Yanaroot uses products that are environmentally friendly ensure health care without harm to people, plants and the planet. There are well known traditional cleaning products that contain harmful ingredients linked to various occupational illnesses. It is necessary that health care workers find strategies to uphold infection protection while also reducing exposure to harmful chemicals found in many common cleaning products used in the industry.
Acu-Trash and Overall Clinic Waste Management
There is so much waste in the medical industry. Single use disposable needles means that there is an abundance of packaging, often including unused waste such as guide tubes, plastic tabs, or other unnecessary accessories.
Yanaroot uses earth friendly, Acufast acupuncture needles. Acufast is committed to reducing Acu-trash and reforesting the planet. According to Acufast, “it would take 96.7 years to produce the same amount of Acu-trash with acufast needles, as it does with 1 year of single tube needle use”.
These high quality, surgical-grade stainless steel needles are delivered in biodegradable packaging. The packaging is reduced, recycled, and there is an option for bulk packaging with optional tubes. Not only were these needles designed to reduce waste, they also reduce chemically treated paper, and harmful sterilization gasses used in the needle industry.
On top of all of that, Acufast is dedicated to planting 2 trees for every 2 boxes of Acufast purchased. Add this to your donation through your session at Yanaroot, think of all the good you are doing!
Herbal Medicinals
Yanaroot strives to provide high quality herbal medicinals from ethical, sustainable sources. The global demand to produce large quantities of herbs very quickly has affected the quality of medicinals, cutting corners on best farming practices that consider the future and long-term impacts. Harvesting too early, using unnecessary growing chemicals to enhance produce, or other such practices are not only low on the sustainability scale but also on the health scale.
It is important that Chinese Medicine Practitioners and their produce manufacturers adopt and implement ethical, sustainable, transparent sourcing processes to maintain positive long term health outcomes for people, plants and the planet.
Overall sustainability is a vital component of Yanaroot's practice. Identifying opportunities and implementing sustainable practices aligned with healthy outcomes for people, plants and the planet supports positive environmental stewardship.
