What is the carbon footprint of a hospital bed?

Researchers from the University of Waterloo, including Alex Cimprich, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, have completed the first-ever assessment of a Canadian hospital to reveal its total environmental footprint and specific carbon emission hotspots.

The study, Environmental footprinting of hospitals: Organizational life cycle assessment of a Canadian hospital, appears in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

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