Topic

Looking for practical implementation of sustainability in endoscopy

Michael Perrot
Michael Perrot • 14 March 2024

Green endoscopy?

I’m interested in networking with endoscopy units.

Topics:

single-use vs. reprocessing 

waste management 

recycling

Comments (7)

Trevor Mose
Trevor Mose

sounds good - we are just starting a new endoscopy unit and would be keen to embed green practices from the get go. any ideas or contacts would be amazing and i can pass on to the service team.

Lena Cordie-Bancroft
Lena Cordie-Bancroft

Interested in learning more anout what you are doing to this end. Are you using any guidance docs or references to help with this?

Louisa Thomson
Louisa Thomson

https://fg.bmj.com/content/flgastro/13/e1/e7.full.pdf
If you can access this - Green Endoscopy: Practical implementation by Leigh Donnelly
We are starting with a waste audit. Do we have the right bins; what items can be recycled that aren't currently. We will then move on to reducing use of unnecessary items (gloves, aprons, inkos, plastic cups etc). We will then look into circular economy - what can be repurposed or replaced with reusable items. We have been putting together a simple audit form, which we will share once it has been reviewed.


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