Webinar 5: Sustainability and Waste Management in Healthcare
Presented by: Linda Varangu, Executive Director for the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care & Kent Waddington, is currently the Coalition’s Communications Director.
When: November 30, 2017 @ 1:00 – 2:00pm, Eastern Standard Time
Webinar Description:
Linda Varangu has been helping health care go green for the past 20 years. She is currently the Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. Linda is the primary author of the first Canadian hospital waste audit guide – Hospital Waste Audit Manual and instructed a core course for a Certificate in Environmental Management at Dalhousie University for five years. Authoring over 50 manuals and research documents on waste minimisation, waste management, and pollution prevention, Linda has also undertaken over 100 waste assessments and detailed audits for various industry sectors including health care facilities.
Kent Waddington, a freelance environmental coach, and communicator is a co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and is currently the Coalition’s Communications Director. Kent has spent much of the past fifteen years engaged in helping members of the Canadian health services sector as they develop and adopt more environmentally responsible practices within their organizations.
Together these presenters will help you understand how to reduce and manage waste within your department and to take steps towards more environmentally responsible practices in.
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