Legacy Health System Waste Management  Basic Philosophy  Waste as a commodity  If we can find a market, we will collect it  If we collect as recycling, we will recycle it  The program goal is to collect as much as possible without compromising patient care

LHS Waste Management  Program includes  Hazardous waste  Medical waste  Document Destruction  Solid waste (trash)  DOT/IATA  RECYCLING

LHS Waste Management  This is the volume page  Amount of solid waste generated  2400 tons =550 lbs/hour  Amount recycling  2020 tons =461 lbs/hour  Amount of medical waste generated  442 tons =100 lbs/hour

LHS Waste Management  What do we recycle?  Paper and cardboard  Glass/tin/aluminum  Scrap metal, yard debris and wood  Plastics  #1, #2, #4*, #5, #6, foams  Electronics  Universal wastes like fluorescents and batteries

LHS Waste Management  Other key program features  Use of non profit for sorting  Employs 7-8 challenged workers  Materials from other sites  Blue wrap from hospitals all over Oregon and SW Washington  Plastics from the Providence System  6 Vet hospitals/materials from the community and employees

LHS Waste Management  So how does this all happen?  Lots and lots of work and communication  In services to all types of groups  Newsletters (weekly to all employees)  Site specific enews  Public folders/shared drives  Site walk through tours  Word of mouth/one on one talking

LHS Waste Management  Audiences  Hospital clinical units  Research  Labs  Office environment  Remote sites  Different size sites

LHS Waste Management  What Does the future hold?  Better recycling collection  Food composting  Major focus shift to sustainability  More partnering  Internally on more sustainable agriculture  Externally on more collection, both with existing programs * and development of new partners