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Performing a Waste Audit

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Season 1, episode 2
34 min / Published

In this episode, we discuss why waste audits are useful. We review the planning and the logistics involved with conducting a hospital waste audit. Our guests include hospitalists that led a 24-hour waste audit on a 20-bed inpatient unit at MGH, and the director of the Environmental Services Department at MGH.

For more information on this podcast, our guests, and additional resources go to: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/healthcaresos

  • waste audit
  • red bag waste
  • hospital
  • inpatient
  • sustainability
  • health care
  • climate change
  • environment
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Grand Rounds Webinar: Inpatient Medicine Waste Audit and the Plastic Pandemic

Recording link: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/news-and-events/webinar-events

Dumpster Diving in the Emergency Department: Quantity and Characteristics of Waste at a Level 1 Trauma Center: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514403/

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