Pizza boxes, flowers, wadded-up paper, latex-glove boxes—those were just some of the items regularly tossed into the red bags reserved for regulated medical waste at Inova Health System, headquartered in Falls Church, Va. “You name

[Please note: Reprocessing is NOT specifically mentioned in this story about hospital sustainability efforts, in a poll commissioned by Johnson & Johnson.] Fifty-four percent of global health care professionals say their hospitals currently incorporate sustainability

The Healthier Hospitals Initiative has released its 2013 Milestone Report, showing that more hospitals are adopting sustainability practices to reduce their environmental footprint while lowering costs and improving the health of patients and staff. The

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Reprocessed Medical Devices Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020", the global reprocessed medical devices market was

Tomorrow is Practice Green Health's Greening the OR Symposium in Chicago.  Today is the last day to register. During the course of a one day workshop, discussion will cover strategies in the OR to reduce the

RP Siegel writes: "People, primarily skeptics, often want to know what is the business case for taking action on climate change. Typically, all they can see is the prospect of energy prices going up since,