São Luiz created a committee in charge of the Program for Management of Health Service Solid Waste (PGRSS), consisting of employees from various areas of both branches. The committee’s purposes are: to reduce risks through a specific treatment for each type of waste, to make recycling easier by separating solid waste from ordinary garbage, enabling the latter to be handled with no special protection and, occasionally, recycled; in addition to teaching such new routines to all the employees who work at the hospital.