Health care
BY CASSANDRA JENKINS
Houston Methodist The Woodlands launches composting collaboration
Step by step
Food waste from the hospital goes into 50-gallon drums. Drums are taken to Nature’s Way Resource in Conroe. The food waste becomes compost. Compost is distributed to Veggie Village at Interfaith of The Woodlands. Vegetables are harvested at the garden and distributed to the Montgomery County Food Bank and community partners.
• Erasing 78,036 miles of driving • Saving 68,576 pounds of carbon dioxide
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital began a sustainability plan in May 2022 under the direction of Jason Fischer, the hospital’s director of the oce of sustainability, and Paul Stege, director of environmental services. The program included launching a small-scale pilot program this August for composting and a partnership with Interfaith of The Woodlands. The overview Stege said Houston Methodist The Woodlands is the rst hospital in the Greater Houston area to create a composting program, and a year into the process, the hospital has already deferred over 101,455 pounds of food from landlls as of September, which is the equivalent of: • Planting 5,183 trees
Stege said the compost the hospital diverts goes to Nature’s Way Resources, a local landscaping supply store in Conroe. After a few months, he said the sustainability oce learned that the nonprot food bank at Interfaith of The Woodlands had been purchasing the compost from Nature’s Way to use in its community donations garden known as Veggie Village. Stege and Fischer said they decided to form a partnership with Interfaith to help the nonprot cultivate food for their community. “It started with good intentions to do our part for the environment, but it became this big self- sustaining thing that we didn’t [expect] for it to be,” Stege said.
What’s next The composting program has since expanded to the Houston Methodist locations in Sugar Land and Willowbrook, Fischer said. The new sustainability oce is also looking to design its rst solar unit, create rooftop gardens and launch a green ICU initiative, Fischer said.
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