ESG Pro Appoints Full Bin as UAE and MENA Partner
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Read Full ArticleWorking in conjunction with Axion Consulting, the British Plastics Federation has stated that its PVC take-back scheme is now operational in seven hospitals.
RecoMed, a project funded by VinylPlus, is a collection scheme that helps to recycle clean PVC medical waste and items collected include IV solution bags, nasal cannulas, oxygen tubes, anaesthetic masks and oxygen masks.
By collecting these items, the scheme helps avoid certain medical devices unnecessarily ending up in clinical waste which would otherwise be sent for incineration. Instead these items are recycled into products for the horticultural industry, e.g. tree ties, promoting a circular economy and reducing waste in this sector.
As of March 2016, the BPF reports that the scheme has recycled over 830kg of PVC medical waste, operating at the seven hospital sites. Two hospitals that have given permission for publicising the scheme are Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Both have been trialling the recycling scheme since December 2014 in their recovery units.
Queen Victoria (QVH) has approximately 1,000 elective operations per month. All the patients pass through the one recovery ward where the RecoMed collection bin is. Using the scheme means that 1,000 masks and 1,000 tubing sets can be potentially be recovered per month (as long as there are no bodily fluids in the mask or tube).
Picture: Seven hospitals are now part of BPF’s RecoMed recycling scheme designed to avoid clinical waste being incinerated and save money
Article written by Cathryn Ellis | Published 26 April 2016
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