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Towards green dialysis: good practice guide

Marta Arias
Marta Arias • 2 April 2025

📘 What’s inside this guide?

This practical guide outlines how dialysis centres can reduce their environmental impact through actionable and scalable good practices. It includes:

🔍 Context & Challenges

  • Environmental, societal and regulatory pressures in dialysis care
  • Specific risks linked to water, energy, and waste in haemodialysis

📊 Tools for Change

  • How to perform a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) assessment
  • Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) explained
  • Examples of GHG emissions in dialysis from France, UK, Australia, USA, and Morocco

🛠️ Actionable Measures across key domains:

  • 💧 Water reduction & reuse
  • Energy efficiency
  • ♻️ Waste management & circular practices
  • 🚚 Sustainable transport
  • 🧾 Green procurement
  • 💻 Digital sobriety
  • 🌿 Biodiversity protection
  • 👥 Internal social sustainability & stakeholder engagement

📌 Bonus: Includes focus sheets, feedback from real centres, and templates for starting a CSR strategy in your facility.

💬 Why it matters:
Dialysis is one of the most resource-intensive treatments in healthcare. This guide shows how nephrology teams can act now to reduce their carbon footprint—without compromising patient care.

📥 Download the guide and start your Green Dialysis journey today!

Resource author(s)
Green Nephrology group of the Francophone Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (SFNDT)
Resource publication date
September 2023

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