Greening the OR - Sustainability Initiatives
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The operating rooms (ORs) purchase large quantities of supplies, generate significant amounts of waste, and use energy intensive equipment. UMMC has committed to decreasing it's OR environmental footprint through:
- Single use medical device reprocessing
- Expanding recycling program
- Blue Wrap and OR Recycling: This program ensures that plastics generated in the OR are collected and recycled.
- Decreasing our waste by donating open and unused supplies to third-world countries and/or to the medical and nursing schools for training purposes.
- Re-formulating kits to decrease waste.
- Using reusable textiles.
- Decrease medical waste by use of fluid waste management systems