How to Recycle Hospital Waste
- 1). Start relocating your used supplies elsewhere. Instead of tossing your utensils or extra equipment away, wash them, and save them for future use for someone else. Sell them on at an online auction site or create a marketing vendor that gives fellow medical units access to your used but unneeded supplies.
- 2). Buy new reusable containers that are safe and functional after just washing. Use these containers with care, because if you're particularly attentive to your equipment, you may be able to use them over hundreds of times. This diverts thousands of these containers from unnecessarily piling up in the local dumpsters.
- 3). Recycle what can't be used again, adamantly. Not only does this reduce volumes of waste inappropriately disposed of when it could be recycled, but it also saves your hospital a huge percent of disposal costs. You'll eradicate bills and environmental problems.
- 4). Eradicate the stigma of the hassles of recycling by just doing it consistently. Create a supportive network of recycling by getting other nurses, doctors and administration to follow your recycling advocacy and practice. This will gain popularity as more people follow. Your hospital will see bigger results as more people get involved.
- 5). Get your hospital to embrace sustainable efforts by thoroughly revising your medical program's entire way of purchasing and networking supplies. You can reduce occupational and environmental hazards by getting the entire facility to obtain alternative products. This action gets your whole institution to practice green methods of recycling altogether.