{"id":451,"date":"2013-11-13T22:13:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:01:05","slug":"palomar-health-saves-over-30000-annually-in-waste-service-costs-by-reducing-the-number-of-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/13\/palomar-health-saves-over-30000-annually-in-waste-service-costs-by-reducing-the-number-of-pickups\/","title":{"rendered":"Palomar Health saves over $30,000 annually in waste service costs by reducing the number of pickups!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hamilton, System Sustainability Manager at Palomar Health, states \u201cwhen I was<br \/>\nlooking at the data in the Key Green Solutions dashboard, I noticed that our Palomar<br \/>\nDowntown campus was paying twice as much per ton as the other two campuses for<br \/>\nmunicipal solid waste, (regular trash). Upon closer inspection, and because <em>all the information is in the same place and easy to compare<\/em>, 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.\u00a0 Apparently the schedule had never been changed after the move to Palomar Medical Center. By <em>catching this in the software<\/em> and reducing that service, we are now <strong>saving over $20,000 per year<\/strong>. We made a similar adjustment at Palomar Medical Center and reduced service by one day and are <strong>saving an additional $10,000<\/strong> at that campus.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keygreensolutions.com\/\">Key Green Solutions<\/a> is the leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare.\u00a0 Key Green is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing data for hospitals and<br \/>\nhelping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities.\u00a0 The software has interfaces to load the vendor\u2019s electronic data, instead of<br \/>\nmanually collecting the data in spreadsheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hamilton, System Sustainability Manager at Palomar Health, states \u201cwhen 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/13\/palomar-health-saves-over-30000-annually-in-waste-service-costs-by-reducing-the-number-of-pickups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palomar Health saves over $30,000 annually in waste service costs by reducing the number of pickups!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,12,102,7,96,34,120],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keygreensolutionscustomers","tag-customerservice","tag-datatracking","tag-facilitydata","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainabilityinitiatives","tag-sustainabilitysoftware","tag-wastetracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.keygreensolutions.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}