Advanced Innovation in Recycling

Introduction1

Discussion1

Brief Description of Recycling1

Recycling in Hospitals3

Retro-Commissioning for Improving the Performance of Building4

Wasting Less and Recycling More5

Installation of Mechanical Systems which are Energy Efficient5

Greening the Departments6

Use of Power Purchase Agreement as hedge against fluctuations in Utility rate7

Greening the Information Technology Department7

Conclusion8

Recommendations9

References11

Evaluation12

Advanced Innovation in Recycling

Introduction

In America almost thirty four percent of the waste generated was recovered in 2009. Hence, the Americans threw away almost 161 million tons of the waste material which is about three pounds in the garbage for every person each day. Moreover, there were almost nine thousand programs of curb recycling in America in 2009 (www.kab.org). Almost eighty two million tons of material was recycled in America in 2009 which resulted in the reduction of carbon dioxide emission which is equivalent to taking almost thirty three million vehicles from the road (www.kab.org). The waste of steam in America will result in generating more than seven billion dollars if it is recycled. Moreover, the recycling industry employs more than one million workers and generates a large amount of revenue. Hence, these increasing rates of recycling along with the new programs of collection reveal that the recycling industry is growing (www.kab.org).

Due to this increasing importance of recycling, this research papers focuses on discussing the various strategies that hospitals can use in recycling which will benefit the hospitals as well as the humanity.

Discussion

Brief Description of Recycling

According to Sierra, recycling is regarded as the reprocess of material to form new products (2008). Moreover, it prevents the waste of materials which are potentially useful, decreases the use of energy and the consumption of raw materials. All of these factors leas to less emission of greenhouse gas as compared to the virgin form of production (Sierra, 2008).

It has been a common practice in the history of humans. During the pre-industrial times, the scrap which was made from bronze and other metal were collected in the Europe which were melted for the perpetual use in the case of Britain, the ash and dust from the coal and wood fired were down cycled to serve the purpose of base material in the making of bricks (www.all-recycling-facts.com). The main drivers behind these forms of recycling were the economic advantage in terms of obtaining the feedstock that was recycled rather than acquiring the virgin material along with the lack of removal facilities' of public waste. The recycling of paper started in 1921 in Britain when the Association of Waste Paper was developed for encouraging trade in the waste paper (Sierra, 2008).

The shortage of resources due to the world wars and other important occurrences had greatly encourages the recycling process. In the Second World War, massive promotion campaigns for the government were conducted in every country which was involved in way which motivated the citizens to donate the metals while conserving the fiber as being the matter of patriotic significance. The programs of resource conservation which were developed at the time of time continued in countries such as Japan as it did not have large amount of ...