Looking to recycle healthcare plastics at your hospital? Not sure how to get started? Already in progress but looking for ways to improve?
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Hospicycle
Overview
A Helping Hand for Hospitals
Hospicycle was developed to help hospitals successfully integrate recycling practices into a patient care setting, and better understand the economic, regulatory, resourcing, and infrastructure nuances that come with it.
Through a step-by-step approach, this guide is intended to help hospitals navigate the process of activating a plastics recycling program from initial planning and business decisions through program implementation and improvement considerations.
No matter where you are in the process, there is a tool to support your organization. Use the filter below to determine where you should start.
Hospicycle Tools
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Hospital Waste Characterization
A hospital’s waste stream can be complex, but understanding the makeup of your waste stream and what portion of that could be impacted by a…
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Hospital Recycling Program Readiness Assessment
Use this checklist to determine if your hospital is ready to consider a plastic recycling program. What is the Hospital’s Passion for Sustainability? Is there a…
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Finding a Recycling Partner for Your Hospital
Finding the right partner is crucial in running a successful hospital recycling program. Below, we walk you through the steps of identifying the best resources for…
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Questions to Ask Your Recycler
When talking with a potential recycling business partner, use the following list of questions and discussion topics to help guide the conversation. What plastics materials can…
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Guide to Developing a Plastics Recycling Business Case
If approval from the hospital executive leadership team is required to implement a plastics recycling program, presenting a business case may be the best approach…
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How to Select a Hospital Plastics Recycling Strategy
Choosing how to structure your hospital plastics recycling program is an important decision that can have dramatic ramifications on your outcome. Below, we walk you…
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Hospital Recycling Training Tools and Templates
Providing adequate training is vital to the successful implementation of a healthcare plastics recycling program. Specifically, providing context and instruction will help ensure that staff…
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Managing Hospital Recycling Material Flow and Logistics
Preventing contamination and developing a streamlined materials transfer process are key to a successful recycling program. Work with your recycling partner and your hospital’s EVS team, nursing…
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Space Guidance for Hospitals
The lack of dock space to stage or process materials is a common problem with developing a hospital recycling program. Unlike the clean, orderly images…
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Recycling Equipment Guide for Hospital
Certain equipment can be very useful in managing collected recyclable plastics, depending on your recycler’s operations for transporting and processing plastics and other recyclable wastes.…
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Recycling Regulatory Resources and Guidelines for Hospitals
The goal of a healthcare plastics recycling program is to recycle clean, non-infectious plastics, including non-medical plastic waste and unused medical plastic waste that is…
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Hospital Recycling Metrics Collection Guidelines
It is important to collect data in order to track progress and set goals for your plastics recycling program. This information can also be a valuable…
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Setting Targets and Goals for Your Recycling Program
Once the plastics recycling program has been established and some data and metrics have been collected and validated, it is time to establish targets and goals for…
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Communicating Your Hospital Recycling Program Successes and Lessons Learned
Communication is vital in sharing your successes and challenges, and in keeping key stakeholders engaged in your hospital’s plastics recycling program. In developing a communications plan,…
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Auditing Your Hospital Recycling Program
Auditing your hospital’s plastics recycling program is a key element of improving your program. Auditing your program can be divided into two parts: (1) auditing…
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