This drawing considers roles of health care waste in environmental stewardship and individuals’ and communities’ health outcomes.

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.

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

Human health promotion and environmental protection are values that sometimes complement each other, but sometimes conflict in BCU management.

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

The health sector has obligations and ample opportunities to protect health by decreasing waste and motivating more system-wide sustainable clinical practices.

Since health organizations offer food, they are situated at key intersections of agricultural policies and practices and public health.

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.

Health system function, resilience, and sustainability are needed to help prepare trainees to lead, innovate, and prioritize a circular supply chain with low emissions.