ArticleBMJ open2024
Carbon footprint of hospital laundry: a life-cycle assessment.
Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Carbon footprint associated with neonatal intensive care unit admission of very preterm infants: A retrospective pilot study applying life cycle assessment.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Observational
- Environmental Impact of a Tooth Extraction: Life Cycle Analysis in a University Hospital Setting.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2026Article
- Reclassifying hospital energy demand toward industry-like requirements for hygienic and resilient indoor environments.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Contribution of hospitals and clinical services to global warming: a scoping systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Measuring and improving the cradle-to-grave environmental performance of urological procedures.Nature reviews. Urology · 2025Review
- Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2025Article
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- The carbon footprint of the perioperative transurethral resection of bladder tumour pathway.BJU international · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a regional hospital laundry unit, and model ways in which these can be reduced.
designA cradle to grave process-based attributional life-cycle assessment.
settingA large hospital laundry unit supplying hospitals in Southwest England. POPULATION: All laundry processed through the unit in 2020-21 and 2021-22 financial years. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE: The mean carbon footprint of processing one laundry item, expressed as in terms of the global warming potential over 100 years, as carbon dioxide equivalents (CO
resultsAverage annual laundry unit GHG emissions were 2947 t CO
conclusionsThe laundry unit has a large carbon footprint, however the per-item GHG emissions are modest and significantly lower than using single-use alternatives. Future electrification of boilers and optimal delivery vehicle loading can reduce the GHG emissions per laundry item.
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