The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s recycling program is wide-ranging, to ensure the proper disposal of electronics, clinical instruments, unique, and unwanted items. We reprocess single-use devices and collect e-waste, metals, and alkaline batteries. Paper and confidential documents are shredded and recycled. Service requests should be submitted to Facilities, either online or by calling 5-8300. Please note charges may apply.

Furniture and Salvage

The JHH Furniture and Salvage Program ensures unwanted furniture is properly reused, recycled or discarded. We also provide office-to-office moves within the hospital and facilitate a used/surplus furniture program via a vendor, Re-form, which is focused on diverting waste from landfills. Unwanted furniture in good condition is stored for resale to the Johns Hopkins community.

Single-Use Devices

Reprocessing single-use devices involves reusing instruments that were designed and sold for a single use. Because of the variety of single-use devices, from simple and inert to complex and electronic, it is challenging to critique the process. Single-use devices range from an external device designed to lie against the skin, such as the plastic boots used for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (intermittent pneumatic compression), to more invasive and complex electrothermal equipment consisting of insulation, sharp blades and crevices that may become filled with blood or human tissue. Please contact your Supply Chain Administrator for additional information or for a list of hospital-approved devices.

Paper and Confidential Document Recycling

Properly dispose of paper, confidential documents, and media through our secure paper shredding and destruction services via Shred-it. Secure paper shredding services are available to departments and offices.

All inquiries and service requests should be submitted to Facilities, either online or by calling 5-8300. Please note charges may apply.

Please do not place non-paper items (e.g., batteries, cardboard, gloves, masks, metal clamps, spiral notebooks, three ring binders, trash, plastic) in shred bins. Those materials can cause potential harm to the Shred-it staffs and fire damage to their equipment. Do not move or relocate the bins or 96-gallon totes from the designated area once they have been positioned.