Last year, the TRSA Healthcare Linen Loss Task Force developed research to substantiate information released in the Preventing Linen Loss in Healthcare animation highlighting the nearly $850 million in annual linen lost from seven primary areas including:
 

1. Red bag waste—linens inappropriately discarded as hazardous waste
    
2. Trash—linens placed in trash receptacles instead of linen bags
    
3. Patients—leaving the hospital with linen as complimentary items
    
4. Employees—Doctors, nurses and others wearing scrubs home
    
5. Overstock—poor inventory and linen management
    
6. Transfer—linen traveling with patients when moved ...