Western Hospital, Footscray, Victoria, Australia.
Anaesthesia. 2009 Dec;64(12):1299-302. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06102.x. Epub 2009 Oct 5.
There is little known about recyclable intensive care unit waste. We tested the hypotheses that the intensive care unit produces a small proportion (< 10%) of hospital waste, that much waste (> 30%) is recyclable and that there is little (< 10%) cross-contamination of non-infectious with infectious waste. For seven consecutive days in an Australian 10-bedded intensive care unit, we prospectively sorted all waste. The total intensive care unit waste for the week was 540 kg, representing 5% of hospital waste. Of the 401 kg of intensive care unit general waste, recyclables were 230 kg (57%; 95% CI 53-61%), mainly plastics, cardboard and paper. There were 0.4 kg of infectious cross-contamination in the 401 kg of general waste. Intensive care unit waste was a small proportion of all hospital waste. However, there was minimal infectious waste cross-contamination and almost 60% of intensive care unit general waste could be recycled with appropriate safeguards, education and training.
有关可回收的重症监护病房废物知之甚少。我们检验了以下假设：重症监护病房产生的废物在医院废物中占比较小（<10%），其中很大一部分（>30%）是可回收的，且非传染性废物与传染性废物之间的交叉污染很少（<10%）。在澳大利亚的一个 10 张病床的重症监护病房，我们连续七天对所有废物进行了前瞻性分类。一周内重症监护病房的总废物量为 540 公斤，占医院废物的 5%。在 401 公斤的重症监护病房一般废物中，可回收物为 230 公斤（57%；95%CI 53-61%），主要是塑料、纸板和纸张。在 401 公斤的一般废物中，有 0.4 公斤的传染性交叉污染。重症监护病房废物在所有医院废物中占比较小。然而，传染性废物的交叉污染很少，且在采取适当的保护措施、教育和培训后，近 60%的重症监护病房一般废物可回收利用。
