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Climate impact of material consumption in the health care sector - case study Region Scania

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Author

  • Mårten Karlsson
  • Dolores Pigretti Öman

Summary, in English

The healthcare sector is resource intensive and consumes large amount of energy, water, and materials. A study on the release of carbon dioxide from a life cycle perspective of Region Scania's operations has shown that 41 % of the total CO<sub>2</sub> emissions is related to material consumption. A later study showed that one of the products with large climate impact was waste bags and other waste wrapping systems. This paper investigates the potentials for climate impact reduction and monetary savings for different scenarios of waste disposal at Region Scania

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

724-725

Publication/Series

Fourth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • material consumption
  • climate impact
  • health care sector
  • Region Scania
  • CO<sub>2</sub> emission
  • waste bags
  • waste wrapping system
  • waste disposal
  • monetary savings

Conference name

Fourth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing

Conference date

2005-12-12 - 2005-12-14

Conference place

Tokyo, Japan

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 1-4244-0081-3