The hospital reported a 200,000-pound decrease, or 17 percent, in monthly trash, according to the report. Hospital officials have attributed the decrease in trash to a systemwide rollout of recycling bins, according to the report.
Kristian Hayes, assistant director of general services at Johns Hopkins Medicine, emphasized in the report the reduction “was mostly done by changing habits — not by spending money.”
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