Blum Center Program: Climate Change and Health Series – Healthcare Sustainability Initiatives to Promote Waste Reduction

In this Massachusetts General Hospital Blum Center presentation from October 13, 2022, Barbara Belanger, DNP, RN, CNOR, gives an overview of the impacts of waste on our climate-changing environment and health. She also discusses healthcare sustainability initiatives, such as recycling medical supplies, that have been in place or in development at Mass General to help reduce waste.

The Climate Change and Health Series is a collaboration among the Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center, the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, and the MGH Institute of Health Professions Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.