Taiwan: Installing hospital waste & energy management systems to achieve sustainability goals

Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation in Taiwan shares how they developed a structure to support their long-standing commitment to health care sustainability and leveraged it to assess and manage interventions from a climate impact perspective. Their successful interventions include reducing energy consumption by transitioning to more efficient lighting, reducing waste by eliminating single-use plastics, reducing water demand by increasing gray water usage, and serving plant-based foods.
This case study was submitted as part of Health Care Without Harm’s Health Care Climate Learning Initiative. The initiative included a series of information-sharing events where representatives from health care organizations around the world met to discuss proven practices, share challenges, and collaborate on decarbonization goals and strategies, while strengthening the network necessary to continue learning from each other. healthcareclim...
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