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The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

Frances Mortimer
Frances Mortimer • 23 December 2020

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

  • Clinical, anatomical and medicinal waste streams have highest carbon footprint.
  • The choice of waste stream has an up to 50-fold impact on the carbon footprint.
  • Waste streams with lowest estimated carbon footprint have lowest financial costs.

Chantelle Rizan, Mahmood F.Bhutta, Malcom Reed, Rob Lillywhite. The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital. Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 286, 1 March 2021, 125446 (available online from 11 Dec 2020)

    Resource author(s)
    Rizan, C., Bhutta, M. F., Reed, M. et al
    Resource publishing organisation(s) or journal
    Science Direct
    Resource publication date
    December 2020

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