An initiative that asks surgery patients to bring their own reusable bags for belongings and a reusable water bottle decreased surgical carbon footprints, waste, and cost.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cataract surgeons believe more reusable and multiuse options are needed to decrease operating room waste, ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, reflects on the quantity of waste produced by surgical operations and what can be done to address it. Following is a partial transcript (note errors are ...

CONCORD, N.H. -- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which discards eight tons of trash a day, is working with hospitals across the country to reduce the environmental impact of operating rooms. The ...

Most anesthesiologists support greater operating room waste recycling but think that there are several key obstacles to overcome, according to a survey published in the May issue of Anesthesia & ...

Dr. Corinna Zygourakis, the chief neurosurgery resident at UCSF, who has studied operating room waste, said hospitals may not like what they'd find. "It's not nice to say, 'Hey, look at the amount of ...