Dumping domestic and international health care waste into the earth’s terra firma and oceans undermine global health equity and the health of vulnerable communities.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.

Restructuring health care waste management involves making existing waste audit data transparent.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

Health sector actions exacerbate climate warming and iatrogenically harm the global public.

Communities are not affected equally by the volume and location of US health care waste.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

Psychiatric aides and technicians are part of direct care workforces in inpatient units who are subject to high rates of violence but earn far less than higher-status clinicians.

This article applies opinions to organizational obligations and interprofessional collaboration in health care.

Two portraits of Barry, a housekeeping utility worker at the Veterans Memorial Hospital Memory Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are part of 80-piece arts-based research collection.