Mayo Clinic Rochester
Mayo Clinic's flagship Rochester campus is pursuing a science-based decarbonization roadmap with deep building electrification, anesthetic gas reduction, and zero waste targets across its destination medical campus.
Compare to peers
Percentiles compare this hospital against peers in the selected set. Higher is better on both metrics.
Goals & progress
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.
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+65 pts ahead)
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago75% (+40 pts ahead)
- Children's Minnesota70% (+35 pts ahead)
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.
- UCSF Health100% (+58 pts ahead)
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+58 pts ahead)
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford80% (+38 pts ahead)
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.
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.
- Massachusetts General Hospital100% (+50 pts ahead)
- UCSF Health100% (+50 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center80% (+30 pts ahead)
Solutions that map to these goals
Products from our solutions directory that align with this hospital's stated commitments and active projects.
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.
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.
Largest reprocessor of single use medical devices in the U.S., recovering EP catheters, pulse oximeter sensors, compression sleeves and more for safe reuse.
Reprocesses single use devices and repairs rigid/flexible scopes, extending product life while maintaining FDA cleared clinical performance.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.
First fully plastic free, PFAS free medication cup, made from bacterial cellulose. Naturally biodegrades in ~3 months and is ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.