Hospital’s ‘Green Team’ cuts waste and expense
WHO officials say the answer to reducing such a heavy environmental footprint is environmentally sustainable policies, such as recycling, reprocessing, composting, and purchasing recycled materials. Such efforts not only reduce emissions from waste facilities, “but
Detoxing Healthcare: Hospitals Get Healthier
Are hospitals making tiny babies sick? That question troubled Kathy Gerwig, an executive at Kaiser Permanente, the big US healthcare provider, when she visited a Kaiser neonatal intensive care unit in San Francisco back in
Inova Launches Red-Bag Waste Reduction Initiative
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
Hospital Sustainability Spending on the Rise
[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
Sustainability Trends Catching On At Hospitals
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
Reprocessed Medical Devices Market Expected to Reach USD 2.58 Billion Globally in 2020
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