Not too long ago we heard about the solar panels being installed and used at Kaiser facilities and now the process continues to medical products that are 
environmentally friendly and recyclable. Last year I had a tour and interview with the CFO of a hospital in Long Beach, not a Kaiser facility, but one that had the same reaching goals and I was amazed at some of the recycled projects that went into building the hospital. There are items that you would not even think of off hand as being “green” or “recyclable” so this was an education indeed for me. They recycled some of the old linoleum floor for one and has a nice new artsy looking surface when redone which was really very attractive.
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach – Brand New Pavilion Carries Focus on Patients and “Green”
There is a company in Texas that takes needles and other items and makes pellets that are used to create cement? Who would have ever thought, but another “green” technology emerging.
Medical Waste Being Recycled Into Building Materials and More – Pella-DRX Pellets
Using “green” products also saves money. BD
Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest U.S. providers of health care, today announced that it will start buying medical products based partly on eco-friendly criteria.
Kaiser Permanente, which today announced an effort to buy only eco-friendly medical products, has solar panels on the parking garages of its Santa Clara Medical Center in California.
To guide $1 billion in annual purchases, it's launching a "sustainability scorecard" that rates suppliers on their use of potentially harmful chemicals and environmental practices such as recycling.
It's also good business. Kaiser Permanente says it saved $20 million annually by switching to greener products in 2009.
Gerwig says the scorecard was developed in October but is now being applied as contracts come up for review. She says Broadlane, its group purchasing organization, will also begin using it this year with other clients, whose purchases total $9 billion annually.
Kaiser Permanente moves to green medical purchases - Green House - USATODAY.com
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