Is there any reference about recycling area recommendation for general healthcare facilities in relation to square foot?, # of pacient?, health departments? or anyone has ever conduct calculations for waste stream for LEED HC (waste generation ratio). Thank you .
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Nadia Ayala
Architect / LEED AP BD+CKILTIK Consultoría
52 thumbs up
September 18, 2012 - 1:51 pm
Luis,
Maybe you can find something useful here:
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/wastechar/WasteGenRates/Institution.htm
or
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/healthcare/
Good luck!
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
September 19, 2012 - 9:18 am
The healthcare industry is all over this! First, look at the 2010 Facility Guideline Institute which is the healthcare guideline book. If you're doing a Hospital in the US, you already have this book. Second, check out Practice Greenhealth and the old Green Guide for Healthcare may also have something (LEED HC pilot). The best thing is to work with the materials management people at the hospital and understand what their waste is currently, what their waste streams are and then ask about their red bag waste as a percentage of their total waste stream. (If this is high, then reducing this can produce the savings to implement something else waste related.) Instead of applying a generality, work with the hospital on where they are at now.
Are you at the planning stage or trying to prove that the current conditions meet the capacity of the expansion? Most facilities have a limited loading dock situation that is not being impacted by the expansion project. They also have more flexible haul contracts with their waste haulers. We've successfully used this to earn the pre-req in hospital projects.
Luis Miguel Diazgranados
Green Factory125 thumbs up
September 20, 2012 - 12:30 pm
Thank Susan , and thank you Nadia as whell , currently we are at the planning stage of the project trying to give a real projection of what magnitude of waste will be , and i have already check de FGI guidelines and the other webpages you recommend, but i have not work yet with the tips you gave me about fieldwork and haulers, that is going to be my next step.
I would like to know if you agree with me about using the following references for waste generation calculations i've found (Nadia links ) from www.calrecycle.ca.gov and other hospital studies:
hospitals produce 0.0108 tons/sq ft /year
or
33.8 pounds /bed/day
I hope this is a correct aproach.