Post by Clear Drop®

A healthcare facility can account for almost every number in its waste stream: tonnage hauled, regulated medical waste, recycling rates by material. Soft plastic stays blank. No bin, no line on any recycling contract, no destination, so nothing ever puts it on a scale. Unweighed, it cannot be managed or cut. Until now. Clear Drop has put numbers behind a long-overlooked waste stream: how much of pharmacy’s plastic waste comes from soft packaging, what a single collection station generates, and what that scales to across a larger system over the course of one-year. The data comes from a 90-day pilot that tracked soft plastic waste from a single pharmacy all the way through to a verified weight—providing hard numbers for a waste stream that traditional audits have largely left unmeasured. Read the complete case study with UCSF Health to review the operational breakdown and verified collection data.