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Procurement activities in healthcare, especially within nephrology, contribute significantly to the environmental footprint. In peritoneal dialysis (PD), procurement of consumables such as dialysis…
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September 2025
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Larkin, J., Ligabue, G., Alfano, G., Martínez-Cadenas, R., Fehintola, A., Steinbach, I., Yasar, A., Morisi, N., Arias-Guillen, M., Caiazzo, M., Donati, G., Duane, B.
Environmental optimizations in kidney care have been analysed as part of the EU co-funded KitNewCare project.Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) using Ecoinvent database and OpenLCA software quantified…
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August 2025
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Duane, B., Larkin, J., Caiazzo ML., Arenas, MD., Griffin, A., Audije-Gil J., Mortimer, F., Attwell, H., Yasar, A., Martínez, R., Arias-Guillén, M., Gomez, M., Fehintola, A., Steinbach, I., Ortiz, A
The European Union (EU)-funded KitNewCare consortium aims to create and manage a comprehensive EU-wide programme focusing on sustainability in Kidney Care. Around 850 million people have chronic…
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November 2024
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Duane, B., Steinbach, I., Stancliffe, R., Barna, S., Cameron, D., Barbieri, I.,Noruisiene, E., Mortimer, F., Gerritsen, K., Vanholder, R.,Donati, G., Alfano, G., Malyszko, J., Ligabue, G., Johnston, B., Wratten, ML., Caiazzo, M., Schmid, E., Ortiz, A.
A multinational survey of health care professionals on the kidney health impacts of climate change and the environmental burden of kidney care was conducted.Most participants reported knowledge gaps…
Water is a dwindling natural resource and potable water is wrongly considered an unlimited resource. Dialysis, particularly hemodialysis, is a water-hungry treatment that impacts the environment. The…
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April 2023
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Mohamed Ben Hmida, Tahar Mechichi, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Mohamed Ksibi
This article announces the creation of the global “GREEN-K” initiative: Global Environmental Evolution in Nephrology and Kidney Care, with a vision of “sustainable kidney care for a healthy planet and…
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January 2023
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Caroline E. Stigant, Katherine A. Barraclough, Mark Harber, Nigel S. Kanagasundaram, Charu Malik, Vivekanand Jha and Raymond C. Vanholder
In this advocacy article from the European Kidney Health Alliance, the authors describe the mutual impact of climate change on kidney health and kidney care on ecology. They propose an array of…
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April 2022
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Raymond Vanholder, John Agar, Marion Braks, Daniel Gallego, Karin G F Gerritsen, Mark Harber, Edita Noruisiene, Jitka Pancirova, Giorgina B Piccoli, Dimitrios Stamatialis, Fokko Wieringa
John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well asthe environmental damage caused bykidney services…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
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Abstract
The US Environmental Protection Agency Resource Conservation website begins: “Natural resource and energy conservation is achieved by…
