Staff education compared with active real-time waste segregation to reduce the environmental impact of hip and knee arthroplasty
Simple educational measures alone can significantly reduce the amount of infectious waste. Extrapolated nationally, our results would yield a reduction of approximately 315,004 kg to 594,577 kg of CO2 annually, which equates to 70 to 132 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for a year.
Authors
- Yuvraj Agrawal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6944-2841)
- Ahmed Abdul Hadi Harb Nasser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6787-5715)
- Deborah M. Eastwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-4768)
- Akshat Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2632-2935)
- Rohan Prakash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6527-0325)
- Mike Reed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6309-2710)
Institutions
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (GB)
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (GB)
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (GB)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bone & Joint Open
- Published
- 2024-12-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.512.bjo-2024-0167.r1
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.54