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Tools and resources

Implementation module: Medical plastic recycling in the OR

  • Greening the Operating Room
  • Medical Plastic Recycling
  • Recycling
  • Guide
Recent hospital data demonstrates that recycling in the OR can generate large volumes of recyclables—in excess of 1000lbs of medical plastics weekly at one large NYC institution with more than 40 ORs/surgical procedure areas.  At an average cost of $121 per ton for solid waste disposal and a price tag of $68 per ton for recycling the same material a hospital might pay nearly twice the price for…

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Sample employee commute survey

  • Transportation
  • Employees
  • Toolkit
(Transportation toolkit) Employee commute surveys and data collection may also be administered by state, regional, and municipal transit authorities, non-profit organizations, and business partners. These are acceptable sources for reporting and tracking employee single-occupancy vehicles and vehicle-miles-traveled rates.

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UCSF Medical Center: Efficient use of fresh gas flow for inhaled anesthetics

  • Greening the Operating Room
  • Exemplary Document
  • UCSF
  • Report
  • Anesthetic Gas
(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Inhaled anesthetics containing environmentally deleterious greenhouse gases are used daily in the practice of anesthesia. The hypothesis is that a reduction in fresh gas flows would significantly decrease volatile agent consumption and resultant purchasing costs at UCSF. Total fresh gas flows utilized by anesthesia providers were analyzed and the data subsequently used to…

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2009 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2009
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth’s Awards program has celebrated sustainability success since 2002. The Awards recognize the different players in the greening community (hospitals,  clinics, manufacturers, GPOs, A&E firms, etc.).  One of the Awards for which hospitals may apply, the Partner for Change Award, requires  waste data reporting as well as other criteria. This report summarizes this waste data…

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2010 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2010
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the second annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2010 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. The data mirrors the order of the 2010 applications so it can be used to compare a…

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2011 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2011
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the third annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2011 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. 

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2012 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2012
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth has been recognizing environmental excellence in health care sustainability since the Awards program inception in 2002. This is the fourth annual benchmark report, based on data supplied in applications by 2012 Partner for Change (PFC) and Environmental Leadership Circle (ELC) award winners. 

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2013 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2013
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth is proud to present its fifth annual Sustainability Benchmark Report, highlighting the achievements of its 2013 Award-winning facilities. The report presents a summary of useful benchmarking information for hospitals’ environmental programs from data collected in 2012, such as average waste profiles, environmentally preferable purchasing data, and energy and water consumption…

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2015 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2015
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth’s 2015 Sustainability Benchmark Report highlights the achievements of the 2015 Environmental Excellence award winners—a set of 220 hospitals who are setting the standard for health care environmental stewardship. This year’s data set is based on reported activities during the 2014 calendar/fiscal year and is organized into ten distinct benchmarking profiles on the different…

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2016 Environmental Excellence Awards Sustainability Benchmark Report

  • Benchmark Report
  • 2016
  • Report
Practice Greenhealth’s 2016 Sustainability Benchmark Report highlights the achievements of the 2016 Environmental Excellence award winners. More than 300 hospitals provided data for this year’s report, with combined savings of more than $92 million across a range of environmental program areas. The new report provides not only a benchmarking comparison for hospitals already engaged in the work,…

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