NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. ("Perf Go Green") (OTCBB:PGOG) (www.perfgogreen.com), a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics, today announced the company's first major hospital conversion with Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) in Pennsylvania. Beginning in December, LVHHN will use Perf Go Green's trash bags in all of its hospital and health services facilities. LVHHN's three hospitals have a combined total of nearly 1,000 beds, 1,100 physicians on staff, 1,900 registered nurses and are the area's largest employers with a work force of more than 9,500.
"We're delighted that such a prominent institution as LVHHN recognizes the contribution Perf Go Green can make to reduce the environmental impact of its daily operations," said Chairman and CEO Tony Tracy. "Our commercial product can be tailored for all kinds of applications and offers an important way for health care facilities, which by necessity generate large amounts of waste, to do the right thing for our environment. Hospitals are an important target group for Perf Go Green, and we're thrilled that LVHHN is setting a trend for other health care institutions to follow."
Linda Zengen, LVHHN waste reduction specialist, added, "LVHHN is committed to reducing its carbon footprint, and these biodegradable bags will go a long way in helping us accomplish that goal. So we are not only helping the environment by switching to these bags, but are also saving money. It's a huge cost savings for the organization."
Perf Go Green's corporate name reflects its "Go Green" mission to develop, market and distribute biodegradable plastic products as a practical and viable solution to eliminating plastic waste from the world environment. Founded in November 2007, Perf Go Green premiered at the March 2008 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, where its products were honored for their design quality and innovation. Perf Go Green's household products -- which include tall kitchen trash bags, lawn & leaf bags, pet products, plastic drop cloths, and other items -- are now available at stores with more than 22,000 retail units and online at Amazon.com and drugstore.com.
LVHHN's conversion to Perf Go Green's biodegradable trash bags is part of the organization's comprehensive environmental program. LVHHN has also implemented a series of recycling initiatives, invested in energy-efficient lighting, heating and cooling systems, installed reflective roofing materials, and taken other steps to reduce its environmental impact.
A premier academic community hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network includes three hospital facilities -- two in Allentown and one in Bethlehem, Pa. -- and Lehigh Valley Health Services, providing home health, hospice, pharmaceutical and health management services and the 400-member Lehigh Valley Physician Group of primary care and specialist physicians. In 2008, US News & World Report named Lehigh Valley Hospital one of America's Best Hospitals for the thirteenth straight year. LVHHN's advanced regional resources include the region's busiest, most-experienced trauma center caring for adults and children, regional Burn Center as well as kidney and pancreas transplant, perinatal/neonatal, cardiac, cancer care, and neurology and complex neurosurgery capabilities. LVHHN hospitals are designated national Magnet hospitals for excellence in nursing. LVH is one of Pennsylvania's largest teaching hospitals and is a major teaching campus of Penn State's College of Medicine. Additional information is available at www.lvh.org.
About Perf Go Green
Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:PGOG), www.perfgogreen.com, is engaged in the distribution and global marketing of eco-friendly, non-toxic, food-contact-compliant, biodegradable plastic products. All Perf Go Green products incorporate recycled plastics that are combined with an oxo-biodegradable proprietary application method to produce the film for the products. Based on environmental claims statements made by the manufacturer of the oxo-biodegradable applied to our products, when discarded in soil and exposed to the presence of microorganisms, moisture and oxygen, we believe Perf Go Green products biodegrade within two years, decomposing into simple materials found in nature much faster than regular plastics, which can take hundreds of years to break down. Through this process and the use of recycled plastics, Perf Go Green effectively removes plastic waste from the environment. In addition, Perf Go Green trash bags utilize a unique patented dispensing system that stores the bags on the bottom of trashcans and dispenses them one at a time, similar to a tissue box.
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