Economic and environmental impacts of a resource-saving committee in a Japanese hemodialysis clinic: a case study.

ABSTRACT: Dialysis therapy is a resource-intensive treatment for end-stage kidney disease that remains highly dependent on in-center hemodialysis in Japan. From both economic and environmental perspectives, it is necessary to reduce energy consumption and resource use, and minimize waste generation to achieve sustainable kidney healthcare. The clinic targeted in this study provides hemodialysis in a regional city and launched a resource-saving committee in 2008 to implement initiatives, appoint green champions, and monitor four environmental items (electricity, gas and water consumption, and waste generation) and financial effects. To retrospectively evaluate environmental impact, we calculated the carbon footprint. The median monthly consumption of electricity, gas, and water per hemodialysis patie

SUBMITTER: Nagai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12852348 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature