Repurposing Waste Streams: Lessons on Integrating Hospital Food Waste into a Community Garden

We describe a partnership model at our hospital in central Pennsylvania, share preliminary outcomes establishing feasibility, and offer guidance for future efforts. We also demonstrate that the integration of medical students in such efforts can foster systems thinking in the development of programs to manage hospital waste streams in more ecologically-friendly ways.
Source: Journal of Community Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research