Ontario hospital lauded for going green

Lakeridge Health Oshawa named Green Hospital of the Year by the Ontario Hospital Association

By Healthcare Facilities Today


The reduction in waste and energy efficiency efforts at Lakeridge Health Oshawa has earned it the Green Hospital of the Year award by the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), according to an article on the Oshawa Express website.

In the last year Lakeridge Health has implemented an energy efficiency plan that includes replacing lights with high-efficiency LED models, installing rooftop solar panels at three hospital sites, replacing cooling systems with more efficient models, eliminating steam systems with new boilers, building a co-generation plant to capture energy from its heating systems to feed back into the provincial power grid, improving building controls, and using a web application to track energy use, the article said.

The award also recognizes the waste reduction program at Lakeridge, which saw 6.5 metric tons of electronic waste diverted from landfills last year as a result of an alkaline battery recycling program and other electronic waste diversion.

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November 26, 2013


Topic Area: Sustainable Operations


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