Navigating the Environmental Excellence Awards waste page
March 16, 2026
Navigating the Environmental Excellence Awards waste page
Wondering how to complete the waste page in your Environmental Excellence Awards application?
In this walkthrough, Practice Greenhealth’s Associate Director of Awards, Katie Pitman, explains the waste data collected in the application and why it matters. She reviews key waste streams, including solid waste, recycling, regulated medical waste, sharps, and hazardous waste, while sharing practical tips for gathering the data that many hospitals already track.
The goal of the waste page is to help organizations better understand their waste streams and identify opportunities to reduce, reuse, and divert waste across their facilities.
Learn more about the Environmental Excellence Awards and the application deadline.
Katie Pittman
Job Title
Awards Program Manager
Organization
Practice Greenhealth
Katie (she/her) leads our Environmental Excellence Awards program. With a background in ecology and environmental biology, she has 10 years of experience in experiential environmental education and spent five years at RUSH University Medical Center in facilities management and sustainability. She was named one of Crain’s 2023 Notable Leaders in Sustainability. Passionate about the benefits of letting your landscaping go a little wild, she is Treekeeper #1754 through Openlands and posts photos of native plants in her small Illinois yard on her Instagram.
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