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CEF seeks users for ‘total waste management system’
The Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF) is looking for NHS hospitals open to working with it to investigate the potential benefits of installing an ‘innovative total waste and waste water handling system designed specifically for healthcare’ by Dutch company, Pharmafilter, ‘at no extra capital or revenue cost’.
Pharmafilter’s ‘total waste management solution’ reportedly takes hospital waste at source (from wards, consulting, and sluice rooms) – including pharmaceuticals, swill, sewage, refuse, and healthcare risk waste – and transports it through existing waste water pipework, converting the waste to digestate and recyclate clean water
and energy –‘all of which has a value’.
The CEF said: “Installation of a Pharmafilter system eliminates the complexity involved in waste management – i.e. all the various bins and bags
clogging wards and clinical spaces, the load on porters transporting waste containers, transport and waste administration, and the impact of trucks and pollution. It also reduces cross- infection, mis-sorting, and associated damage to healthcare buildings and congestion, leaving clean, drug-free water, and dry inorganic material, that is non- hazardous, and suitable as refuse-derived fuel, simultaneously reducing the risks of antibiotic resistance in our sewers.”
Good progress on conserving resources measures to become more efficient in the
A new report from the Sustainable Development Unit, Reducing the use of natural resources in health and social care, shows that local organisations across the health service in England are saving money by making more efficient use of resources, as well as benefiting the environment.
The publication supports NHS figures that show at least £90 million is now being saved each year across the country compared with in 2014, through
NHS use of natural resources. Furthermore, despite growing numbers of patients, the health and care system in England has, over the past decade: n Reduced its carbon footprint by 18.5%. n Slashed its water footprint by the equivalent of 243,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, in the first water footprint of a health system in the world.
n Ensured that over 85% of NHS provider waste avoids going directly to landfill.
‘Ongoing growth’ sees DHF re-locate
‘Tremendous growth in both employees and membership’ has seen the DHF (Door & Hardware Federation) relocate to ‘a new and improved facility’ on the outskirts of Tamworth.
The Federation says last month’s move to The Barn at Shuttington Fields Farm provides significantly larger office space, plus ‘a state-of-the-art’ training academy and parking for over 40 cars. The re-location – to a site just four miles from junction 11 of the M42 – should also yield ‘considerable cost savings’, with training and meetings now able to be held on site.
“The Federation has doubled in size in membership and staff over the past five years, which is great news, but it is essential we continue to offer a first- rate service to our members and support that growth with appropriate resource,” explained CEO, Bob Perry. “We have been at our Heath Street head office for 31 years, and a move was long overdue.” The DHF attributes its growth, in part, to an increasing uptake of its training courses, with over 2,300 delegates completing one of its four courses since the launch of the Gate Safety Diploma in September 2013.
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