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Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 97
Case study 38 - Significant cost savings from hospital waste
management programme
The University College London NHS teaching trust undertook several
measures to better manage their clinical waste. Conducting a waste audit
enabled them to set targets to reduce the amount of clinical waste
produced and identify material streams for recycling. The trust also ran
a staff-training programme and reviewed the provision of clinical waste
sacks. These measures reduced their clinical waste arisings from 60 tonnes
per month to approximately 45 tonnes per month within three months
of the programme starting. This has resulted in an annual cost saving
of £40,000. The trust also now recycles between 40 and 60 bales of
cardboard every week as well as smaller amounts of paper, glass, cans,
fluorescent tubes and pallets.
Source: Department of Health Healthcare waste minimisation: A compendium
of good practice
Case study 39 - Awareness and infrastructure make hospital
recycling easy
London Remade has been delivering a new recycling initiative in Chelsea
and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust across its administration and
catering departments. The programme addresses changes in European
legislation, which requires Trusts to demonstrate good practice in
environmental performance. The green overhaul includes the provision
of recycling bins across the hospital to encourage staff to recycle all
general waste including paper, cardboard, plastics, cans and glass. To make
the process as straightforward as possible, a co-mingled recycling system
is in place meaning all recycled materials can be placed in the same bin
and posters have been placed across the hospital to raise awareness of
the scheme. Soon after the initiative commenced, the Trust was recycling
over two tonnes of materials per month.
Source: London Remade
4.69 There is no single Londonwide NHS waste and recycling collection
contract, each hospital or healthcare centre has an individual contract.
For some this will be with the private sector although for others the
contract will be with the local authority. Most of the general waste
produced by the healthcare sector is considered by law to be household
waste and as such local authorities are obliged to collect it if requested,
although they may charge for the service 217 . Under the Household Waste
Recycling Act 2003 local authorities are obliged to provide a basic
recycling service for household waste by 2010, which will provide an