TY - JOUR
T1 - Repurposing Waste Streams
T2 - Lessons on Integrating Hospital Food Waste into a Community Garden
AU - Galvan, Adri M.
AU - Hanson, Ryan
AU - George, Daniel R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding A Human Health and the Environment Seed-Grant was provided by the Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - There have been increasing efforts in recent decades to divert institutional food waste into composting programs. As major producers of food waste who must increasingly demonstrate community benefit, hospitals have an incentive to develop such programs. In this article, we explain the emerging opportunity to link hospitals’ food services to local community gardens in order to implement robust composting programs. We describe a partnership model at our hospital in central Pennsylvania, share preliminary outcomes establishing feasibility, and offer guidance for future efforts. We also demonstrate that the integration of medical students in such efforts can foster systems thinking in the development of programs to manage hospital waste streams in more ecologically-friendly ways.
AB - There have been increasing efforts in recent decades to divert institutional food waste into composting programs. As major producers of food waste who must increasingly demonstrate community benefit, hospitals have an incentive to develop such programs. In this article, we explain the emerging opportunity to link hospitals’ food services to local community gardens in order to implement robust composting programs. We describe a partnership model at our hospital in central Pennsylvania, share preliminary outcomes establishing feasibility, and offer guidance for future efforts. We also demonstrate that the integration of medical students in such efforts can foster systems thinking in the development of programs to manage hospital waste streams in more ecologically-friendly ways.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10900-018-0509-x
DO - 10.1007/s10900-018-0509-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 29623502
AN - SCOPUS:85045065643
SN - 0094-5145
VL - 43
SP - 944
EP - 946
JO - Journal of Community Health
JF - Journal of Community Health
IS - 5
ER -
