October 18-24 is the 20th Waste Reduction Week (WRW) across Canada and the 6th annual WRW Inter-Hospital Challenge! The challenge is simple: each hospital or health network aims for the greatest participation rate on the WRW quiz. It’s a quick 3 minutes on the 3R’s … 5R’s now, actually: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot (compost) for a fun way to learn and reinforce the most wasteless behaviours. If you work at any of these participating organization, play on!
- CHEO
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare
- SickKids
- Sinai Health
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- University Health Network
Click Here to Play! Oct 18-24
Help your site win the Stein of Sustainability, the Royal Highness of Reusable Cups! Not only will you help your site win, you will also qualify to win some eco-fabulous prizes given out by your hospital, and conquer the 5-R’s while you’re at it. The more that play, the more we all win.
Caught green-handed!
Click a Pic of you/friends practicing the 5R’s. Email it to green@uhn.ca or tag us on twitter or facebook.
Want to dig deeper?
- Have a look at Waste Reduction Week Canada’s website
- Read up on the Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare’s PPE-mSUP Project
- Or share your thoughts with the Toronto Academic Health Science Network’s (TAHSN) equally quick survey on reducing the environmental harms of healthcare.
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