environmental footprint through
implementing a recycling program in
operating rooms (OR) and recycling
and reduction of food waste in Nutri-
tion Services.
A hospital setting has unique chal-
lenges for recycling due to biohazard
contamination concerns which means
that recycling cannot occur in all
clinical areas of the hospital. In clini-
cal areas approved for recycling, the
staff require extensive education and
operational supports (eg: signage,
receptacles) to help them iden-
tify the specific recy-
clable materials
in their respective
clinicalworkareas.
As an educational
tool, some units
are
beginning
to utilize a “3D
recycling bulletin
board (conceived
by an OR Regis-
tered Nurse at the
Hamilton General). This 3D
board typically comprises of two
columns—one for recycling and one
for landfill—where examples of waste
“As an organization,
we have changed our food
service model entirely. We took
it as an opportunity to look at
how we are managing waste
and our costs.”
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Victoria Brzozowski
Waste Management
Coordinator
NOVEMBER 2018 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 7
