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Seattle, WA· 407 beds

Seattle Children's Hospital

Pediatric leader that pledged in 2020 to be carbon neutral by 2025. Recognized by The Joint Commission for an anesthesiology led project to reduce inhaled anesthetic gas emissions.

Carbon neutral 2025Anesthetic gas reduction
Sustainability report
Peer benchmark

Compare to peers

Better than peers on progress
97%
vs. 35 peers · median 44%
Better than peers on waste/bed
69%
peer median 6.0 t/bed/yr
Your progress
100%
2 stated goals

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Stated commitments

Goals & progress

Carbon neutral
Target Net zero by 2025 · baseline 2015 · Pledged 2020; emissions tracked since 2015
Achieved
100% of the way to goal0 yrs remaining
Source: Health Care Without Harm
Projected impact if deployed
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.

Reduce inhaled anesthetic gas emissions
Target Major cut by 2024 · baseline 2018 · Joint Commission spotlight (multi year reduction)
Achieved
100% of the way to goal0 yrs remaining
Source: The Joint Commission
Projected impact if deployed
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.

Vendor match

Solutions that map to these goals

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

Anesthesia & pharma
Anesthesia gas capture (Centralized waste anesthetic gas)
SageMedic / Sage Sustainable Electronics

Capture and destroy systems for waste anesthetic gases (desflurane, sevoflurane, N₂O) that prevent potent greenhouse gas release and cut volatile pharma waste.

Impact: Mass General Brigham and others report 80%+ reductions in anesthesia carbon footprint.
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Anesthesia & pharma
Pharma waste segregation software
PharmEcology (WM Healthcare Solutions)

Decision support tool that correctly classifies drug waste so hospitals stop disposing non hazardous pharma in expensive, plastic heavy regulated waste streams.

Impact: Customers cut hazardous pharma waste tonnage by 30 60% on average.
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Anesthesia & pharma
SID waste anesthetic gas capture & recycling
ANAESTHETIC GAS RECLAMATION (Baxter / SageTech)

Closed canister system that captures exhaled volatile anesthetics from scavenging lines and ships them back for purification and resale as pharmaceutical grade product.

Impact: UK NHS pilots (Solent, Royal Cornwall) recovered >90% of sevoflurane and cut anesthesia carbon footprint by an estimated 27,000 tCO2e at scale.
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Anesthesia & pharma
Anaesthetic greenhouse gas capture device
Gaiatech (University of Auckland)

OR-side device that scrubs waste anaesthetic gases (sevoflurane, desflurane, N₂O) from the scavenging line before they vent to atmosphere, using a novel adsorbent developed at the University of Auckland.

Impact: Successfully trialled at an Auckland hospital in late 2025 removing ~100% of anaesthetic gases across 15 theatres — early pilot data suggests one of the cheapest per-ton CO₂e abatement options in the OR.
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Anesthesia & pharma
CONTRAfluran volatile anaesthetic absorber
Baxter / ZeoSys Medical

Zeolite-based canister fitted to the anaesthesia machine exhaust that captures sevoflurane, isoflurane and desflurane. Saturated canisters are returned to ZeoSys, where the anaesthetic is desorbed, purified and re-sold as pharmaceutical-grade drug.

Impact: 2025 peer-reviewed single-center study (Universitätsmedizin Greifswald) documented high real-world capture efficiency for sevoflurane in routine anaesthesia — a drop-in Scope 1 reduction with no clinical workflow change.
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Underway

Waste reduction projects

EnergySince 2016
Drive alone commute reduction program
Key lever in carbon neutral roadmap
Pharma wasteSince 2022
Anesthetic gas footprint reduction
Cited by The Joint Commission as a national model
Proof points

Case studies & pilot programs

Publicly documented programs where this hospital or its parent system reported measurable results.

Energy2021

First U.S. children's hospital to achieve LEED Gold operations

Seattle Children's Building Cure achieved LEED Gold and the hospital became a national leader in pediatric facility decarbonization, pairing efficiency retrofits with renewable PPAs.

Result
Honored by Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award multiple consecutive years.
Source: Seattle Children's