Health and Social Care
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Guidance for the health and social care sector
Change sectorWelcome to our Health and Social Care workplace Recycling Guide!
In this guide, we’ll take you through five steps to implementing recycling in your workplace. Whether you’re a Hospital Trust, health or social care service, GP or dental surgery or any other type of health organisation, if your workplace is new to recycling, work your way through from Step 1. Or you can jump to a particular page if you're after specific advice
The tips in this step-by-step guide will help you to:
Optimise: get the most from your current waste collection service.
Plan: design a recycling system that works for your workplace, service users, visitors and employees
Reduce costs: recycling is often cheaper than disposal!
Get compliant: ensure your workplace complies with the new regulations
Covered in this guide
- About the Health and Social Care recycling guide
- Why your Health or Social Care workplace needs to recycle
- Planning your Health and Social Care recycling needs
- Calculating the collection cost of your Health and Social Care waste
- Setting up recycling for your Health and Social Care workplace
- Monitoring recycling services in Health and Social Care settings