During surgical procedures protective gowns and drapes are used for patient and staff safety. These gowns and drapes can be reusable and disposable. During time, reusable cotton gowns were, due to technological development and increasing knowledge of infection spreading replaced with disposable ones. This change has been in some parts of the world more and in others less accepted, so the need for comparison arised. Small number of studies of this topic did not manage to find a final answer to which model, reusable or disposable is better. Each model has advantages and disadvantages. Research is lacking and it is impossible to consider all parameters based on which decisions are made. In Split hospital, both reusable and disposable gowns and drapes are used. Based on data provided by central sterilization, hospital laundry service and operation rooms trends in using reusable and disposable gowns and drapes can be seen. Collected data from year 2012. to 2016. show that, first, number of disposable packages used in operation rooms has increased. Second, number of autoclave sterilization processes for textile materials has been reduced, which indirectly points to reduced number of reusable operation packages that are sterilized this way and used during surgical procedures. Third it shows decreasing (from year 2012. to 2014.), and after increasing (from year 2014. to 2016.) the number of operation procedures in Split hospital. Fourth, it shows decreasing (from year 2012. to 2014.), and then increasing (from year 2014. to 2016.) the cost of disposable surgical packages. The conclusion based on the data obtained is that the number of disposable operation packages increased, while the number of disposables decreased, but both models will remain to exist in near future. The choice which gowns and drapes to use will be based on user preferences and strategic decisions within the healthcare system and related to hospital management. This decisions will also affect the work of hospital laundry service and central sterilization as well as the problem of waste disposal, which becomes more and more prominent theme.