Annual report 2010-2011 - NHS Portsmouth
Annual report 2010-2011 - NHS Portsmouth
Annual report 2010-2011 - NHS Portsmouth
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Being seen to be green - our environmental impact<br />
We have embraced the <strong>NHS</strong> Carbon Reduction Strategy for England<br />
which targets a 10% reduction in carbon emissions for all <strong>NHS</strong><br />
organisations by 2015.<br />
We have a Sustainable Development Management Plan that covers<br />
environmental legislation, governance, organisational/workforce<br />
development, partnerships, finance, energy and carbon management,<br />
water and waste management, procurement, travel and design and<br />
operation of buildings.<br />
The plan will be important in helping us to maintain the progress we<br />
have made to date in these important environmental areas. And we<br />
will continue to seek opportunities to engage staff in this process.<br />
In the past year;<br />
• we have reduced our domestic waste output by 20% from 478<br />
tonnes in 2009/10 to 399 tonnes in <strong>2010</strong>/11;<br />
• we have increased total waste recycled to 23% (19.5% last year;)<br />
• using energy recovery facilities in our clinical and domestic waste<br />
contracts helped us recover or recycle around 98% of the waste<br />
produced;<br />
• carbon footprint from energy usage in our buildings has gone up<br />
from 4.9 tonnes CO2e to 5.6 tonnes in <strong>2010</strong>/11,due to the transfer of<br />
part of the St Mary’s site to the PCT.<br />
We continue to<br />
promote cycling<br />
as a healthy, and<br />
environmentally<br />
friendly, travel<br />
alternative in<br />
<strong>Portsmouth</strong>.<br />
We support the annual Big Green Commuter Challenge event run by<br />
<strong>Portsmouth</strong> City Council to reduce traffic flow into the city whilst,<br />
in our Public Health work and initiatives such as Healthy Towns, we<br />
promote walking and cycling as a healthy travel alternative.<br />
We support the Council in its Walking Strategy, which aims to get more<br />
people to walk for short journeys and encourage sustainable travel.<br />
The St James’ catering service continues its policy of using local and<br />
sustainable sources of food and produce wherever possible.<br />
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