Resources

Eliminate Mercury

• Going Green: List of Items Containing Mercury in the Hospital Setting
  
• The National Institute of Health's Mad as a Hatter
  
• Mercury Assessment Worksheet
  
• H2E Self Assessment Guide
  
• Sutter Health's Policy for Mercury Free Purchasing

Reduce Waste

• H2E's Self Assessment Guide
  
• Medical Equipment Recovery and Clean Inventory (MERCI)
  
• Annual Facilty Assessment Summary & Goals Form

Reduce Toxicity

• How to do EPP in Hospitals
  
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing How-To Guide
  
• Does This Go in the Redbag?
  
• Key Changes to the RMW Regulations Related to Compliance
  

• Cleaning Products

  • INFORM's Cleaning for Health
    
  • Cleaning Chemical Use in Hospitals

• Safer Sterilization

  • Ethylene Oxide Factsheet
    
  • Envirosense Factsheet on Ethylene Oxide Sterilant Alternatives
    
  • Sustainable Hospital Project's 10 Reasons to Eliminate Glutuataldhyde

• Incineration Alternatives

  • Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Alternatives
    
  • Medical Waste Treatment Technologies: Evaluating Non Incineration Alternatives

• Universal Waste Recycling

  • 10 Steps to Recycling Fluorescent Bulbs
    
  • Battery Roundups: Get Charged!
    
  • Computer Recycling: List of venders in Virginia

• Laboratory Chemical Reduction

  • Chemical Purchasing Practices
    
  • Sustainable Hospital Project List of Non-Mercury Lab Alternatives
    
  • Microscale Chemistry

• Energy Efficiency

  • EnergyStar's Purchasing and Procurement
    
  • Energy Self-Audit Assessment Tool
    
  • Pollution from Energy Use Calculator

• Pesticide Reduction

  • Integrated Pesticide Management
    
  • Pest Management in New York State Hospitals

• Reducing PVC Use in Hospitals

  • Dioxin, PVC and Healthcare
    
  • Reducing PVC Use in Hospitals
    
  • PVC Audit Tool
    
  • PVC Alternatives List

• Recycling

  • Paper Destruction, Recycling and HIPAA
    
  • Recycling Factsheet for Hospitals
    
  • Sample Policy for Buying Recycled