Tools and resources

Seattle Children's Goal Progress 2016

• Employee engagement
• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• Waste
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Report

Seattle Children's Hospital posts sustainability progress and goals on its employee web pages. Open the resource to view examples from the hospital's recycle refresh initiative and paper reduction initiative.

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Gundersen Health System: Tech-based measuring for food waste prevention

• Food
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Gundersen
• Waste
• Food
• food waste
• Toolkit

 A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “If you can do something to reduce the waste, you’re doing the right thing for the environment, you’re saving money, and you’re doing something that’s socially responsible. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.”  – Tom Thompson. Gundersen Health Systems' baseline revealed they were throwing out an average of half a ton of food every week — approximately 24…

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HealthPartners: Composting and animal feeding to reduce food waste

• Food
• Case Study
• HealthPartners
• food waste
• Waste
• Toolkit

A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “Organics recycling and food waste diversion remain very important to us, and we are slowly but surely working to expand both the number of facilities with organics recycling and the types of materials that can be recycled.” – Allison Egan, HealthPartners Sustainability Consultant HealthPartners wanted to reduce sending organic waste to the landfill. They…

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Guidance for purchasing can liners

• Waste
• Sustainable procurement

Guidance on the applicable environmental considerations for can liners

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