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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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