Determining Barriers and Facilitators to setting up a Car Seat Recycling Program

Background Child passenger safety is an important initiative in hospitals across the country. State laws require that parents and caregivers secure a child into a car seat from birth through the age of eight or until they reach 4’9” in height. Car seats have an expiration date and any car seat that is involved in a moderate or significant motor vehicle crash should be replaced and yet, many parents resort to storing old car seats. Here, we sought to determine the barriers and facilitators to the …