A new study indicates that the health care industry lags behind other sectors regarding issues of environmental sustainability such as pollution, waste generation and disposal, and water use.
Eileen McNeely, director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said in an August 6, 2018 Reuters Health article that sustainability programs make sense for health care organizations.
“They have such a big footprint and this is really essential to their mission,” said McNeely, who was not involved in the study. “But one of the major drivers of corporate sustainability programs is consumers/buyers. That’s why we developed SHINE—to try to bring health into sustainability.”
Read the Reuters article: Healthcare not very green compared to other industries