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The Gold in Garbage: Implementing a Waste Segregation and Recycling Initiative

Overview of attention for article published in AORN Journal, February 2016
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Title
The Gold in Garbage: Implementing a Waste Segregation and Recycling Initiative
Published in
AORN Journal, February 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.aorn.2016.01.014
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Authors

Kerstin H Wyssusek, Wai Mee Foong, Catherine Steel, Brigid M Gillespie

Abstract

Generally, ORs produce approximately one-fifth to one-third of all waste in a hospital. Before our quality improvement project was performed in our tertiary care facility, all OR waste was disposed of as clinical waste. Disposal of clinical waste is more costly than disposal of general waste. Therefore, accurately segregating waste can have significant financial incentives. Our quality improvement project involved the implementation of processes that segregated general waste in the OR from clinical waste and translated to an almost 60% reduction of waste disposal costs for OR waste. Further, we implemented a recycling program that reclaimed a portion of the general waste. In total, our efforts reduced the amount of clinical waste produced by the OR by 82%, and the amount of total OR waste was reduced by more than 50%.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 91 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 19%
Student > Bachelor 15 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Student > Postgraduate 5 5%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 33 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 18%
Engineering 9 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 7%
Environmental Science 5 5%
Other 20 22%
Unknown 28 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2016.
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#16,115,153
of 24,520,935 outputs
Outputs from AORN Journal
#1,039
of 2,061 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#172,199
of 303,000 outputs
Outputs of similar age from AORN Journal
#21
of 48 outputs
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