Health and Social Care
Help for your business at each step of the journey.
Welcome to our workplace Recycling Guide for the health and social care sector! It is important to note that this guide is solely for household like waste (dry recyclables and food waste) and not for the management of healthcare waste.
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 organisation and employees
Reduce costs: recycling is often cheaper than disposal!
Get compliant: ensure your organisation is complying with current waste regulations
Covered in this guide
- About the Health and Social Care recycling guide
- Why your Health or Social Care organisation should 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 your recycling service in Health and Social Care settings
Content overview
About the Health and Social Care recycling guide
Welcome to our workplace Recycling Guide for the health and social care sector!
This guide is for the person responsible for managing waste at your workplace or site.
Why your Health or Social Care organisation should recycle
Before we get into the details of how to recycle, let’s take a quick look at the background and how recycling can help your organisation.
Planning your Health and Social Care recycling needs
If you’re completely new to workplace recycling, this step will help you work out what waste your business generates and what you might need from a recycling service.
Calculating the collection cost of your Health and Social Care waste
If you’ve completed the waste audit as covered in Step 2, you’ll have collected detailed information about the amount and type of waste your organisation. You can now use the business waste calculator to estimate the amount of waste collected from your organisation and receive suggested changes that could help your organisation recycle more and save money.
Setting up recycling for your Health and Social Care workplace
If you’ve carried out a waste audit and used the business waste calculator, you should now have a better understanding of the types of waste your organisation generates and options to recycle more. You’ve hopefully also created a waste action plan, and now it’s time to put it into action!
Monitoring your recycling service in Health and Social Care settings
Once you have your workplace recycling set up and you’ve got your employees on board, it’s worth regularly monitoring and reviewing how it’s going. By doing so, you can share successes with your team, clients and visitors look out for opportunities to improve.