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Austin, TX· Ascension Seton· 396 beds

Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin

Ascension's flagship Austin hospital advances the system's environmental stewardship commitments through OR waste reduction, anesthetic gas optimization, and clinical recycling across its medical, surgical, and cardiovascular services.

Ascension systemAnesthetic gasClinical recycling
Sustainability report
Peer benchmark

Compare to peers

Better than peers on progress
0%
vs. 1 peers · median 42%
Better than peers on waste/bed
100%
peer median 6.0 t/bed/yr
Your progress
40%
3 stated goals

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Stated commitments

Goals & progress

Reduce Ascension system greenhouse gas emissions
Target 50% reduction by 2030 · baseline 2020 · Scope 1 and 2 emissions across Ascension ministries
On track
38% of the way to goal4 yrs remaining
Projected impact if deployed
Current 38%Projected 53.4%
+15.4 pts
Est. 147 tons/yr of waste diverted across the matched solutions.
Contributing solutions

Directional estimate. Tons modeled from this hospital's annual waste footprint and category benchmarks (Practice Greenhealth, vendor case studies). Diminishing returns applied when multiple solutions share a category.

Behind on this goal — 3 peers further along:
Reduce anesthetic gas emissions
Target Eliminate desflurane and cut N2O waste by 2027 · baseline 2022 · OR anesthetic gas formulary and N2O manifold leakage
On track
45% of the way to goal1 yrs remaining
Projected impact if deployed
Current 45%Projected 59.3%
+14.3 pts
Est. 154 tons/yr of waste diverted across the matched solutions.
Contributing solutions

Directional estimate. Tons modeled from this hospital's annual waste footprint and category benchmarks (Practice Greenhealth, vendor case studies). Diminishing returns applied when multiple solutions share a category.

Behind on this goal — 3 peers further along:
Expand clinical recycling and landfill diversion
Target Higher diversion rate by 2028 · baseline 2021 · Blue wrap, clean plastics, and packaging recyclables
On track
38% of the way to goal2 yrs remaining
Projected impact if deployed
Current 38%Projected 52.8%
+14.8 pts
Est. 143 tons/yr of waste diverted across the matched solutions.
Contributing solutions

Directional estimate. Tons modeled from this hospital's annual waste footprint and category benchmarks (Practice Greenhealth, vendor case studies). Diminishing returns applied when multiple solutions share a category.

Behind on this goal — 3 peers further along:
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Solutions that map to these goals

Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.

Compostable supplies
BioGown compostable isolation gown
Terraloam

The first closed loop, 100% compostable medical isolation gown. Replaces single use plastic gowns with a plant based alternative collected and composted through a take back program.

Impact: 176K+ gowns diverted from landfill, 95% collection rate, Premier Innovation Award winner.
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Recycling & circularity
BioDigester on site composter
Terraloam

On site aerobic digester that turns up to 220 lbs of hospital food waste and Terraloam compostable film gowns into finished compost in 24 hours closing the loop between cafeteria and clinical waste streams.

Impact: Diverts ~40 tons/yr of combined food waste and compostable PPE per unit from landfill or incineration with no off site hauling.
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Reusable / reprocessed devices
Single use device reprocessing
Stryker Sustainability Solutions

Largest reprocessor of single use medical devices in the U.S., recovering EP catheters, pulse oximeter sensors, compression sleeves and more for safe reuse.

Impact: ~$1B saved across 3,000+ customers and 26M+ lbs of waste diverted from landfill.
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Reusable / reprocessed devices
ReNewal device reprocessing
Medline

Reprocesses single use devices and repairs rigid/flexible scopes, extending product life while maintaining FDA cleared clinical performance.

Impact: Customers like Sharp HealthCare report seven figure annual savings plus large landfill diversion.
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Recycling & circularity
GENERATIONS closed loop lab plastic recycling
BD + Envetec

On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.

Impact: Pilot study confirmed recovered resin meets virgin grade specs for re manufacture into healthcare plastics.
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Packaging
TRUCIRCLE medical packaging
Coveris + SABIC

First closed loop recycling model for sterile medical packaging non contaminated hospital packaging waste is collected, chemically recycled, and turned back into new sterile film.

Impact: Live pilot with Zuyderland Medical Center and Artivion proving circular sterile packaging at scale.
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Underway

Waste reduction projects

Pharma wasteSince 2024
Desflurane phase out
Shifting OR formulary away from high GWP volatile anesthetics
RecyclingSince 2023
OR blue wrap recycling
Sterile wrap diversion across surgical services
ReprocessingSince 2023
Single use device reprocessing
Certified reprocessing of select OR and cardiology devices