{"id":5262,"date":"2016-11-08T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=5262"},"modified":"2016-11-16T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:58:34","slug":"recycling-and-composting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/about-us\/working-for-the-environment\/program-highlights\/recycling-and-composting\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling and Composting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Waste Management Program at The Ottawa Hospital has incorporated leading edge innovations for over\u00a010 years, allowing the hospital to recycle 20% of its total waste. This course of action generates revenue and reduces operating costs each year. The hospital has addressed each waste stream, and each year works towards diverting more waste from the landfill. Here are some of the projects we\u2019ve implemented to reduce waste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full recycling program (paper, plastic, metal, cardboard)<\/li>\n<li>Composting in the Civic Campus cafeteria and kitchen and the General Campus kitchen (coming soon to the Riverside Campus and General Campus cafeteria)<\/li>\n<li>Replacing Styrofoam food containers with biodegradable &amp; paper items<\/li>\n<li>Recycling in the operating rooms (clean plastic and paper items)<\/li>\n<li>Confidential paper shredding and recycling<\/li>\n<li>Fluorescent lamp recycling<\/li>\n<li>Used cooking oil recycling<\/li>\n<li>Electronics recycling<\/li>\n<li>Surplus supply donation program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><div style=\"width: 2588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GreenTeamComposting-October20122.jpg\" alt=\"Green Team Composting-October 2012\" width=\"2578\" height=\"1922\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dean Ongaro, Manager Environmental Waste Management composting in the Civic Campus cafeteria<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><div style=\"width: 1900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GreenTeam2011-ORRecycling4.jpg\" alt=\"Green Team 2011-ORR ecycling\" width=\"1890\" height=\"1260\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Recycling in the Operating Rooms<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 3018px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GreenTeam2011-SupplydonationpickupJacquesChenailNJT1.jpg\" alt=\"Green Team 2011-Supply donation pickup Jacques Chenail\" width=\"3008\" height=\"2000\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Surplus supply donation program, Jessica Heiss Coordinator, Sustainability and Building Integration with Jacques Chenail of Not Just Tourists Ottawa<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Waste Management Program at The Ottawa Hospital has incorporated leading edge innovations for over\u00a010 years, allowing the hospital to recycle 20% of its total waste. This course of action generates revenue and reduces operating costs each year. The hospital has addressed each waste stream, and each year works towards diverting more waste from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":5250,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5262\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}