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Text: Nienke Landré
"THE SECTOR ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT SEVEN PER- CENT OF CO2 EMISSIONS."
Nicole Hunfeld and Diederik Gommers
Each patient in Erasmus MC’s intensive care unit (ICU) accounts for seven rubbish bags, or 17 kilos of waste per day. Throughout the hospital’s ICU, 250,000 kilos of materials were used in 2019, most of which are not recyclable. This can and must change, according to intensivist Diederik Gommers and ICU pharmacist Nicole Hunfeld.
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