U.S. hospitals produce approximately 6 million tons of waste annually, with a 2017 study estimating that improper waste disposal could cost the U.S. more than $700 million over 5 years.

The country's first hospital recycling facility is on course to save £100,000 in waste disposal costs, a NHS trust has said.

In 2020 alone, the program diverted nearly half a ton of single-use biomedical device waste from landfills and saved the hospital thousands of dollars in both sharps waste and device costs. St.

SINGAPORE — There’s a ticking time bomb in Philippine hospitals and it’s made of plastic. Every year, the country produces 2.15 million tons of plastic waste, more than a third of which ...