A combination of collaboration and technical knowledge has helped the client unravel the complexities of their waste management issues and opportunities.

Meinhardt was appointed by the Victorian Department of Health to review Victoria’s current public hospital waste management data.

Working with hospital waste specialists, the Meinhardt team has provided the Department of Health with an understanding of waste generation quantities and associated costs of waste management, where it is currently and where it will potentially be in the future. This also included a range of key issues, opportunities and strategic directions.

The broad spectrum of the project across the whole of the Victorian Public Health Service provided a significant range of challenges including categorising and analysing data collection from major metropolitan hospitals to small rural healthcare facilities.

Waste is generated in the hospitals in multiple areas from the operating theatre to administration support and all the patient wards between with mixed waste streams such as clinical waste, as well as, confidential paper and food waste adding to the complexity of requirements.