so they usually end up in the incinerator, phillip lingle and others who work on the surgical teams hate that germans are told to separate waste at home, but in the hospital everything's supposed to land in the garbage us. of course, we tried to reduce the amounts of waste as much as we can. another aspect is that disposable devices are sometimes significantly more expensive than we use simple ones. a device can cost between 5 and 600 euro. then after you use it once for an operation, it goes into bin, which just doesn't make sense. maybe not, but it's common practice. in fact, that's what the construction trade, commercial and mining industries. hospitals are the 5th largest producer of waste in germany. they turn up $4800000.00 tons of it per year. the hospital in pa, now employees waste manager michelle schmidt. his job is to get waste volume and disposal costs under control. his methods are now being emulated by other clinics across the country. okay. the crowns the males. of course, our primary task is patient care and safety. however, waste volume has risen more and more in importa