For Hospitals

Hospicycle

Looking to recycle healthcare plastics at your hospital? Not sure how to get started? Already in progress but looking for ways to improve?

This guide is for you.

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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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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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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