wastetracking – Key Green Solutions Blog

CommonSpirit Health celebrates Earth Day with continued focus on sustainability

On Earth Day, we reflect on all the outstanding work of our customers, CommonSpirit Health. In 2026, CommonSpirit made a huge sustainability impact through recycling, diversion, and reprocessing! https://www.commonspirit.org/news-articles/commonspirit-health-earth-day-sustainability-impact

Our modular based software is the leading sustainability data solution for healthcare. The modules include:

Our solution automates your data collection process to all your vendors, eliminates paper, and allows you to benchmark your facilities internally or to national Key Green benchmarks.

To learn more about how we can help your organization improve your sustainability initiatives and enhance your bottom line contact us at sales@keygreensolutions.com to schedule a free online software demonstration.

Key Green Solutions Supports Customers with Practice Greenhealth Awards

Each year, hospitals apply for the Practice Greenhealth Awards to highlight their commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. While the awards are an important recognition, the application itself is long and time-consuming, especially for busy sustainability teams.

That’s where we help.

As a healthcare-focused sustainability software company, we already collect and manage the data needed for the award. Because all this information lives in our platform, our customers don’t need to spend hours pulling reports or re-entering data.

Each year, we:

Support 100+ hospital customers with their applications
Complete 11 sections of the award on their behalf: Energy, Water, Waste, Food, Reprocessed Devices, EPEAT, Greening the OR, Healthy Interiors, Green Cleaning Chemicals, Green Building, and Climate
Ensure accurate, consistent, and timely submissions

By handling the data gathering and entry, we remove pressure from hospital teams and allow them to focus on driving real sustainability impact. We’re proud to stand behind the hospitals making healthcare more sustainable—and to make the awards process just a little bit easier along the way.

Interested in how our software can support your sustainability goals? Reach out to schedule a free demo: Key Green Solutions : Contact Us

or e-mail Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Key Green Solutions Sponsors West Michigan Environmental Action Council’s 21st Annual Cleanup

Owner Mark Huizenga speaks to attendees of the annual cleanup

On Saturday, September 7, Key Green Solutions attended the 21st annual WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup. This effort allows friends, family, and businesses to volunteer their time picking up debris along the Grand River. In addition to having the opportunity to be a sponsor, Key Green Solutions employees were able to speak at the event and join the manual cleanup efforts.

Employees Jeff Burks and Joel Buys clean up along the Grand River in downtown
Grand Rapids

If you are interested in joining the WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup, the event goes through Saturday, September 14.

If you are interested in speaking with Key Green Solutions about tracking your sustainability metrics, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Key Green Solutions Saves Almost $1,000,000 for New Customer

When organizations become customers of Key Green Solutions, they work closely with our implementation team to make sure all vendors and data is accounted for. Last year, Implementation Manager Tim Schuitema did the same for a mid-sized customer and found severe discrepancies in their billing.

Tim stated, “Last November, I was assisting in a Request for Proposal for a mid-sized organization. While compiling a 12-month hazardous waste analysis, our team noticed their spend seemed much higher than what we would normally expect. After investigation into the discrepancy, we found that not only were there errors in the reporting their hazardous waste vendor had provided, but that they were also double billed.“

After the Key Green Solutions team evaluated the 12 months’ worth of invoices line item by line item to find any further latent billing errors, Tim was able to report back to the client with shocking and bad– yet ultimately great– news. “We told the customer what we had found to be multiple alleged billing errors, and they went back to their hazardous waste vendor for clarification. Thank to Key Green Solutions‘ implementation team, our customer was credited over $990,000 for the hazardous waste billing errors.”

Success stories such as this are why clients rely on Key Green Solutions to track and report their data. Our team investigates the numbers and reaches out to vendors to unravel any undiscovered reporting errors. If you are interested in a demonstration of our software, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Track Your Waste with Key Green Solutions!

At Key Green Solutions we offer different modules for tracking data at your facility. One of the modules we track is waste! Customers can log in and run reports for all facilities in their system, and even get automatically formulated graphs that are easily exported for presentation purposes.

With our waste module you can: Analyze waste generation, see landfill avoidance savings, view recycling volumes, and look at cost trends over time using benchmarks and performance reports for each facility.

Track all of the following in one portal:

Municipal Solid Waste (Compactors, Front Load, etc.)
- Regulated Medical Waste (Red Bag, Yellow Bag, Chemo, Sharps, etc.)
- Pharmaceutical Waste (RCRA, Non-RCRA, Controlled Substance)
- Hazardous Waste (Aerosols, Xylene, Flammable Liquids, Labpacks, etc.)
- Recycling (Compost, Shredding, Cardboard, Single Stream, Blue Wrap, etc.)
- Universal (Electronics, Batteries, Lamps, etc.)
- Reuse (Donations, Reprocessed Devices (SUD), Pallets, Linens, etc.)
- Construction and Demolition (Solid Waste, Recycling, Concrete, Asbestos, etc.)

Our enterprise level sustainability tools will help your organization develop systematic solutions!

Palomar Health saves over $30,000 annually in waste service costs by reducing the number of pickups!

Barbara Hamilton, System Sustainability Manager at Palomar Health, states “when I was
looking at the data in the Key Green Solutions dashboard, I noticed that our Palomar
Downtown campus was paying twice as much per ton as the other two campuses for
municipal solid waste, (regular trash). Upon closer inspection, and because all the information is in the same place and easy to compare, I noticed that the waste compactor at Palomar Downtown campus was being picked up for disposal 3 times per week, and it only needed to be picked up one time per week. Apparently the schedule had never been changed after the move to Palomar Medical Center. By catching this in the software and reducing that service, we are now saving over $20,000 per year. We made a similar adjustment at Palomar Medical Center and reduced service by one day and are saving an additional $10,000 at that campus.”
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare. Key Green is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing data for hospitals and
helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities. The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s electronic data, instead of
manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.

Health care providers work to stream line energy, waste and water data with Key Green Solutions software

Key Green Solutions Key Green Solutions LLC, a Grand Rapids, MI-based sustainability software developer, is helping local and out-of-state health care systems manage their multitudes of data in a single, consolidated web-based program. With an emphasis on energy use and waste, as well as ease of user management, Key Green’s product is expected to increase efficiency and bring to light cost issues specific to hospitals.
Key Green currently has contracts with organizations in 10 states. Users manage approximately 20 million square feet spread across 50 different facilities.
Click the link below to gain additional insight into the technology that is streamlining sustainability data for health care:
http://www.mibiz.com/news/healthcare/19305-sustainability-efficiency-programs-health-care-providers-work-to-streamline-energy-utilities-data-with-software.html