MRP1 FOR HEALTHCARE

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!

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.