Our info pack has plenty of information but it comes down to:

-Engaging with your theatre team

-Identifying a potential intervention (use our 4R bundle)

-Finding information (see our procurement surveys)

-Feeding back to your department (presenting at a department meeting, share with staff)

-Advocating by presenting a peer-reviewed article to your department

-Leading by example

-Running your campaign in the lead up to Operation Clean Up day. Your day can be what you make it, but use the 6-8 weeks before to campaign, education and advertise what you want people to do.

You can find relevant papers in the ANZCA library environment guide. They have an updated list of relevant papers that can help you be evidence-based in your communications. If the link doesn’t work its also available here: https://libguides.anzca.edu.au/enviro/

Its really important that YOU collect local data to feedback to your department. This is one of the most effective methods of changing behaviour. We no longer collect your data (like in previous years) but we know that procurement data is really powerful. Use it to inform people.

How much waste does your hospital produce annually? How much goes to landfill?

How many drugtrays/laryngoscope blades/gowns/blueys (just examples!) does your department use per year?

Having those figures is really powerful. Read our paper in AIC for some more inspiration about how data can transform your campaign: Operation clean up: A model for eco-leadership and sustainability implementation

You can sign up for Operation Clean Up 2023 here or click the button above.

This can be a sustainability improvement project in its own right, or you can work with your scholar role tutor to create an audit project or present a peer-reviewed article to your department. We don’t create the audits for you anymore but if you have an idea - test it out and then let us share it so your idea can be a multicentre study!

Please fill in the post event survey to allow us to improve future OCU’s.