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Journal Article
People, planet and profits: the case for greening operating rooms
2012
Overview
As much as 85% of hospital waste is nonhazardous solid waste.2,24 Unfortunately, 50%-85% of waste that should be disposed of as solid waste is actually disposed of as biohazard waste.25 The same improper disposal of waste can be seen in the operating room, where one case study reported that up to 92% of discarded biohazard waste may be nonhazardous.3 Expert opinion suggests that biohazard waste should constitute no more than 15% of an institution's total waste stream.26 Inappropriate disposal is largely due to a lack of awareness among health care workers on what constitutes biohazard waste.2,25 A single surgery may produce up to 12 L of fluid waste, and a typical operating room generates up to 2 tons of fluid waste each month.27 Fluid disposal in the operating room traditionally occurs by pouring fluids into wastewater streams, collecting fluids in surgical suction canisters and disposing of them as biohazard waste, or mixing the fluids with solidifiers with subsequent disposal in the regular waste stream. Surgical suction canisters are estimated to include up to 25% of biohazard waste from operating rooms.27,28
Publisher
Elsevier Inc,CMA Impact Inc,Joule Inc,CMA Impact, Inc,Canadian Medical Association
