Community Health Partnerships is delighted to join this year’s Recycle Week (14 – 20 October) to celebrate the efforts of NHS staff, patients, and visitors in the 308 CHP-managed LIFT healthcare facilities to recycle.
Now in its twenty-first year, Recycle Week (organised by Recycle Now) is the UK’s biggest celebration of recycling, shining a light on the nation’s recycling habits through activities happening across the UK. For Recycle Week 2024, Community Health Partnerships joins an urgent crusade to save five packaging heroes from being rubbished, keeping them out of the bin, and living the circular life, through recycling.
To highlight the plight of the five ill-fated packaging heroes, Recycle Now has created a team of characters to bring the campaign to life and is asking everyone to ‘Rescue Me – Recycle.’
The condemned containers include Dee Dee, the deodorant, Rey, the plastic trigger spray, Yogi, the yoghurt pot, Fitz, the perfume bottle and humble Hube, the toilet roll tube. The group will feature on recycling and refuse lorries in parts of the UK, in school education packs and on social media. Lifesize characters have been produced to highlight the key message and will feature in media throughout Recycle Week.
A week of fun activities with a serious message, the campaign aims to empower people to look out for the five items missed most often in the weekly recycling collection. CHP will be encouraging staff, patients, and local residents to keep them in circulation by recycling.
Recycling at CHP
As one of the largest producers of waste in the country, it is vital that the healthcare system disposes of waste it in a safe, efficient and sustainable manner, and only creating waste when absolutely necessary.
Through eliminating avoidable waste, introducing recycling facilities and utilising our contracts to drive innovation, we are working hard to provide facilities which enable effective and efficient waste management.
The best waste management practices reduce waste, improve compliance, and can lead to significant cost savings from lower waste volumes. They also have an important part to play in minimising harm to the environment and increasing resource utilisation. This all leads to a reduction in carbon generated from waste and financial savings for our tenants.
CHP’s clinical waste impact – Year to date
- Over 50% of CHP sites have recycling facilities in place
- 680 tonnes of material has been recycling from CHP buildings including cardboard, plastic, glass, confidential paper and even an x-ray film!
Providing recycling facilities for all CHP sites is a key focus, with the help of waste contractors and our LIFTCo’s we are currently progressing well in implementing this initiative across the estate.
Community Health Partnerships is proud to support Recycling Week 2024. As a key member of the NHS family, we recognise our responsibility to protect the environment and promote sustainable practices. By implementing effective recycling programmes and educating CHP and NHS staff, visitors, and patients, we can make a significant contribution to a Greener NHS
We are delighted that Community Health Partnerships is supporting Recycle Week. While a light-hearted campaign, recycling is essential to limit the impact what we buy has on the environment. Keeping these materials circulating means we can reduce emissions linked with our weekly shop. Most people are recycling, and the material we capture has a multitude of uses, so the next step is to ensure everyone captures everything they can. Every aerosol, every trigger spray bottle, every plastic pot, perfume bottle and toilet roll tube. Rescue – recycle!
Sustainability at CHP
As part of the NHS family, CHP supports the NHS ambition to deliver the world’s first net zero health system. Sustainable Facilities are one of our five strategic aims and Sustainability is one of our four corporate social responsibility pillars. Aligning with the NHS target of achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2040, the team at CHP are committed to achieve Net Zero Carbon for the LIFT estate by 2040 and 2030 for our corporate functions.
