Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
The flagship hospital of Piedmont Healthcare, Georgia's largest health system. Piedmont Atlanta pursues system wide commitments around energy efficiency, waste diversion, and sustainable supply chain, supported by a centralized environmental services program.
Compare to peers
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Goals & progress
- Gundersen Health System (Emplify Health)100% (+60 pts ahead)
- Advocate Christ Medical Center100% (+60 pts ahead)
- Seattle Children's Hospital100% (+60 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.
- Massachusetts General Hospital100% (+58 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center80% (+38 pts ahead)
- Mayo Clinic Rochester80% (+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.
- Stanford Health Care100% (+62 pts ahead)
- Hackensack University Medical Center100% (+62 pts ahead)
- Valley Children's Hospital100% (+62 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.
On site treatment system that decontaminates and recycles polystyrene petri dishes, PET tubes, medical tubing and polypropylene syringes back into usable resin.
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.
First fully plastic free, PFAS free medication cup, made from bacterial cellulose. Naturally biodegrades in ~3 months and is ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.
Custom surgical procedure packs redesigned with right sized components and recyclable wrap to cut OR plastic and packaging waste at the point of care.