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Every week at this time we bring you Jon Greenberg’s round-up of the economic news. The headline is obviously the national unemployment rate, now pegged at 10.2 percent. That’s not however the focus of Jon’s update.

Hospitals throw out millions of dollars worth of unused medical supplies every year, for a number of reasons - for instance, because they're outdated.

Nonprofit groups are collecting the supplies and shipping them to developing countries. But tons of items still wind up in landfills. As part of a collaboration with Northeast stations, Josie Huang of Maine Public Radio reports.