Today Oregon Health and Sciences University announced the “One bag a day” initiative to help cut the cost of the environmental services. “One of the problems with the work from home program for housekeepers was that the garbage was not being collected” stated president Joe Robertson at yesterdays press conference. We’ve been trying to cut wasteful spending, well how about cutting spending on waste?
We are asking every employee of Oregon Health and Sciences University to take home one bag of garbage each day, said Bill Rundig head of environmental services. “We don’t really care what you do with it after that. Most workers will simply take it home, while others who work at other hospitals might drop it off there and make it their problem. “The working premise here is ‘out of sight out of mind’, just as long as we get the stuff off our campus.
Just pictures these on your OHSU ID
Say goodbye to Rose awards and hello to Garbage awards.
To encourage participation there will be a point system for garbage collection and you can win exciting prizes and get garbage can stickers for your ID.The rose awards have been fantastically popular with employees, so we thought “what the heck” lets start a garbage award. Every 100 points you will get a garbage can sticker to proudly display on your OHSU ID. Small office garbage bags are worth 1 point, Large 50 gallon garbage bags are worth 5 points, Red Biohazard bags are worth 20 points, and (the holly grail of garbage collection) – Yellow radioactive waste bags are worth 100 points
Just stop by the new garbage tally booths at the bottom of Sam Jackson Park Road, show us your garbage, get your card punched and go. “It’s just that easy and fun!”
You can win this snazzy T-Shirt from OHSU
After only 200 points you can get a “I collect garbage at OHSU t-shirt”, and with 1000 points you will receive a genuine OHSU logo 50 gallon rolling trash can as our way of saying thanks for taking out the trash.
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