Hospital Recycling Saving Money and the Environment

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Hospital Recycling Saving Money and the
Environment

• Why Is It So Important?

By Jemina Tolentino, Chrystalle Alejandria,
Suzanne Clark, Angela Buie Erin Low Nursing
4111 Nurses Influencing Change November 21, 2007
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Why Should We Bother?

• Its important that we realize how much waste
  hospitals generate.
• The following video is meant to help you get a
  better idea of the great potential recycling can
  have for a hospital

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Process of Change
Kurt Lewins Change Theory was explained by
Schein (1995) in a paper called Kurt Lewins
Change Theory in the Field and in the Classroom
as
(PSI CHI, 2007)

• Human change, whether at the individual or group
  level, is a profound psychological dynamic
  process that involved painful unlearning without
  loss of ego identity and difficult relearning as
  one cognitively attempted to restructure one's
  thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and attitudes.
• Lewins Change Theory is a very basic, easy to
  use model. It includes of unfreezing, changing,
  and refreezing as a theoretical foundation upon
  which any change can be solidly built.

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Driving and Restraining Forces

• Driving forces are those affecting situations
  that are pushing in a particular direction.
  (Schein, 1995)
• Restraining forces are forces acting to restrain
  or decrease the driving forces.(Schein, 1995)

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Unfreezing

• "Unfreezing involves finding a method of making
  it possible for people to let go of an old
  pattern that was counterproductive in some way.
  (Schein, 1995).

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Unfreezing

• Unfreezing
• What do we need to do?
• Management support
• Conduct a waste audit
• gt Best locations for bins, what is being wasted.
  
• Appoint a coordinator
• gt Oversee information gathering, evaluation and
  implementation.
• Acquire recycling bins
• gt Haulers may provide these
• Educate all employees on waste reduction
• gt Why? How? When? Where?
• Create incentives
• gt Make it fun.

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Moving To A New Level 

• "Moving to a new level involves a process of
  change-in thoughts, feelings, behaviour, or all
  three, that is in some way more liberating or
  more productive. (Schein, 1995)

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Moving To A New Level

• Moving To A New Level
• What do we need to do?
• Decide which materials to recycle
• gt Its usually best to start small. ex paper
  and plastics.
• Post clear, concise signs in all locations
• Plan for storage
• gt Design and implement a storage process for
  recovered materials. Include custodians in
  decision.
• Promote the program
• gt Pick a start date, advertise and have a
  celebration.
• Utilize waste exchange
• gt One units waste may be feedstock for
  another.
• Removal
• gt Establish contracts for removal of recovered
  materials. Usually good to use the same company
  that does trash removal.
• Monitor and reinforce

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PLAN FOR STORAGE!
Your trash could be someone elses treasure!
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Refreezing

• Establishing the change as a new habit, so that
  it now becomes the standard operating
  procedure. Without some process of refreezing,
  it is easy to backslide into the old ways.
  (Schein, 1995)

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Refreezing

• Prepare follow-up
• gt Be sure staff continues with program once the
  excitement has worn off
• Evaluate the program
• Keep records
• gt Set up a log book or a receipt system to
• record the volume of recyclables leaving
• the premises
• Recycling training for all new employees
• Provide feedback
• gt Issue memos, newsletter articles and
  announcements
• on a regular basis

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Recycling Program Using Lewins Theory Of Change
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