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In order to provide the best care possible, health care sometimes requires the use and generation of hazardous waste and garbage.
However, within construction, support services and delivery of care, we can choose materials that have a reduced negative impact on the environment, and look for ways to reduce and avoid excess and unnecessary material use and waste.
Goals and impact
- Divert waste to recycling and composting streams.
- Decrease overall waste generation.
- Promote safe materials and a circular economy.
- The materials we use should be safe for people and the planet.
- As many materials as possible should remain useful for as long as possible, through design for reuse, repair, reprocessing and, at end of life, recycling.
- Unnecessary material waste should be prevented by using leverage from procurement and environmentally preferable purchasing processes.
Increase waste-diversion rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
50%
2020
50%
2030
Decrease waste-intensity rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
15.0
2020
12.0
2030
Increase waste-diversion rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
50%
2020
50%
2030
Decrease waste-intensity rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
12.0
2020
10.0
2030
Increase waste-diversion rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
50%
2020
50%
2030
Decrease waste-intensity rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
5.0
2020
4.0
2030
Increase waste-diversion rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
50%
2020
50%
2030
Decrease waste-intensity rates at existing acute and long-term care sites.
10.0
2020
8.0
2030
Want to see how we are doing?
Click here to read the 2020 Environmental Performance Accountability Report
Facilitation and support
Marianne Dawson
Sustainability ConsultantSmall Changes Make Big Impacts for Greener Healthcare
A busy frontline care team spotted a chance to reduce plastic waste and took action. Working with PHSA Supply Chain and the GreenCare Energy and Environmental Sustainability Team, they managed to spark province-wide green changes.
