Urban academic medical center with a strong green building portfolio, LEED certified construction across recent expansions, and active waste, energy, and procurement programs.
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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.
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.
UK university spin out (NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow) that decontaminates and recycles lab consumables pipette tips, tubes, plates into reusable polymer feedstock on site.
Finnish startup making the first fully ecological hydrocolloid dressing decomposes to CO₂, water and humus with no microplastic residue.
Publicly documented programs where this hospital or its parent system reported measurable results.
After Sandy flooded the campus, NYU Langone rebuilt with an on site cogeneration plant and hardened infrastructure, becoming the first medical campus in the world to earn USGBC PEER Platinum certification.
Profiled by the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit for systematically hardening its 3.5M sq ft Manhattan medical campus against flooding, heat, and power loss.