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Key Actors for Achieving Sustainable Food Systems
The following table provides a general list of groups that need to be involved for the successful planning, design or delivery of food infrastructure for planetary health projects; it is offered as a working draft or a guide for you and your teams to upgrade together.
Worksheet
Local Food Procurement at Halton Healthcare, Halton Hills, Ontario
Hotspot: Food Sustainability Case Study: Local Food Procurement at Halton Healthcare, Halton Hills, Ontario
Case Study

Recipes for Change: Food Infrastructures for Planetary Health
This webinar explored how healthy food and food systems contributed to improvements in patient, public, and ecosystem health. It discussed aligning planning, design, and delivery of food infrastructures with planetary health values. The authors of the Food Infrastructures for Planetary Health playbook presented ways to integrate planetary health into decision-making, including opportunities across the facilities delivery lifecycle and approaches to driving system change. Speakers from across Canada shared efforts to transform health system food environments. The event was presented by CASCADES in partnership with Nourish and Green Care.
Webinar
Waste audit within a paediatric hospital (Toronto, Canada)
Hotspot: Clinical ward waste Case Study: Waste audit within a pediatric hospital (Toronto, Canada)
Case Study
Hazardous medical waste management infographic
This infographic and corresponding primer are intended for healthcarepolicymakers and individual changemakers looking for opportunities for change inaccordance with provincial, national and federal regulations. For any complementary information about this topic, please refer to the CASCADES Hazardous Medical Waste Management primer.
Infographic

Navigating biomedical waste management policies for sustainability
This playbook focuses on strategies to work effectively with biomedical waste management policies in order to reduce the environmental impact of both the waste itself and the processes required to manage it.
Playbook
Clinical ward waste primer
A primer for environmentally sustainable opportunities for health systems focused on clinical ward waste
Primer
Hazardous medical waste management primer
A primer for environmentally sustainable opportunities for health systems focused on hazardous medical waste management in Canada.
Primer
Green Care Sustainability Resources
Sustainability resources created by Green Care in British Columbia to mitigate infrastructure waste.
Website
Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice
In partnership with the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, we are assembling a Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice. This network will enhance sustainability within healthcare waste management processes in Canada by exploring the links between waste, clinical delivery of care and environment sustainability Chair: Allen Bridge, Provincial Lead in Environmental Sustainability and Waste Management at Alberta Health Services
Network