Sustainability Initiative Part 6

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My white bag- red bag initiative addresses the issue of dropping the wrong kind of waste in any bin. It encourages the patients and the medical staff to segregate the hospital’s waste through dropping reusable waste materials in the white bags and other medical wastes in the red bags. Color coding the bags helps waste disposal to be easy and more efficient, therefore saving the cleaning staff time as well as keeping them away from risking their health when separating the trash for disposal or recycling. The pictorial signage on the bags would also help people within the hospital environment to know the kind of waste that should go into each bag. Visual signage is usually important in helping people to understand instructions better. My initiative also advocates for the placement of these waste bags far from one another to encourage people to drop waste material in the right kind of bags. Placing them side by side would make persons within the hospital to ignore the white bag-red bag rule (Reynolds et al., 2019).

Some of the practices that I can employ in my sustainability initiative include:

· Being intentional about my sustainability initiative. I would make the initiative my priority in every way by incorporating it in every aspect of the hospital’s operations. I would further assign accountability to the cleaning staff and measure the results.

· I am partnering with other employees at the hospital. I would work together with the hospital’s cleaning department through training them on how the initiative works and show them how it would be an easier way to reduce waste and manage it, hence conserving resources. Through working with employees, I would get the chance to solicit ideas from them on how to make the initiative better or use a similar idea in a different department within the hospital (Wheeler et al., 2018).

References

Reynolds, C., Goucher, L., Quested, T., Bromley, S., Gillick, S., Wells, V. K., & Svenfelt, Å. (2019). Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions–What works and how to design better interventions. Food Policy.

Wheeler, L., Guevara, J. R., & Smith, J. A. (2018). School–community learning partnerships for sustainability: Recommended best practice and reality—International Review of Education.