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From both economic and environmental perspectives, it is necessary to reduce energy consumption and resource use, and minimize waste generation to achieve sustainable kidney healthcare. The clinic targeted in this study provides hemodialysis in a regional city and launched a resource-saving committee in 2008 to implement initiatives, appoint green champions, and monitor four environmental items (electricity, gas and water consumption, and waste generation) and financial effects. To retrospectively evaluate environmental impact, we calculated the carbon footprint. The median monthly consumption of electricity, gas, and water per hemodialysis patient was approximately 353\u2005kWh, 17\u2005m\n                    <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                    , and 9\u2005m\n                    <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                    , respectively. These levels of resource consumption were nearly equivalent to those of an average Japanese household in 2022. Switching to a combination of city water and well water reduced both costs and environmental impact. However, the overall financial benefit and initial investment burden, such as for installation of light-emitting diode fixtures and developing the water supply system, were not fully investigated. The resource-saving committee appears to have mitigated both economic and environmental impacts to some extent; however, steady resource-saving efforts were accompanied by surging costs of electricity and medical waste disposal during the study period, indicative of recent general inflation in Japan. 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