Modern Australian

Five ways hospitals can reduce their environmental footprint

  • Written by Forbes McGain, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Five ways hospitals can reduce their environmental footprintSo many hospital items are used once and then thrown away.from shutterstock.com

Picture the environmental life cycle of many disposable surgical instruments. Iron ore from Western Australia is shipped to China and smelted, fashioned into stainless steel surgical instruments in Pakistan and exported as single-use instruments. In Australia,...