Waste disposal strategy


our vehicles are fitted with 24-hour, real- time monitored tracking devices, which ensures that we always know where our collected loads are.


 Once material has been collected from a customer site, it is taken directly to a Betts-owned processing facility in Worcestershire.


 On arrival, all material is stripped from its paper / card sleeves, and film is graded before being destroyed; again, this process is undertaken by Betts staff only.


 Paper / card sleeves are processed via shredding to ensure 100% destruction; residual shredded material is sent to be recycled, and ultimately used for fibre board manufacture.


 X-ray film is processed to destruction via industrial granulation.


 Once X-ray film has been granulated / shredded, it is washed chemically to remove any silver content via the Betts silver recovery line.


 Silver is recovered.  Washed, shredded film with no data present is then sent to be manufactured into food trays.


 A Film Destruction Report is generated, which details the volumes of film, card, and paper, destroyed and recycled.


 A Certificate of Destruction is issued.  The rebate is paid to the Trust based on the amount of silver bullion recovered.


Recognising the value of waste


Betts Envirometal recently completed a large ‘culling and destruction’ project for Barking, Havering, and Redbridge NHS Trust – managing its X-ray waste stream in full compliance with the law. Barking & Havering’s radiology resource manager, Michael Cotter, said: “Betts helped the Trust recognise the value of this waste stream, while delivering a fully auditable and licensed solution, and is now returning the revenue from the recovered silver back to us.”


Requirement to be audited A number of standards apply to the service, enabling Trusts to be confident that the process meets (and in most cases, exceeds) all legal requirements. Any contractor submitting a tender to carry out the secure destruction of X-ray film should be audited to proven standards and facility criteria. These include: ISO 27001 is the security standard,


which assesses how the contractor manages and stores sensitive data and records – from collection to storage, and right through to destruction, creating audit trails for each process. ISO 9001 is the quality standard, which


assesses how the contractor deals with customer service – such as how customer complaints are recorded and dealt with.


ISO 14001 is the environmental


standard, which assesses how the contractor limits the impact of its business activities on the environment, including via the safe storage of waste, and attainment of recycling targets. This standard also dictates how such a contractor manages the entire waste collection process, from initial uplift, to final disposal. Shredding Standard EN 15713:


This is the industry standard for secure destruction service provision, and dictates the standards that each type of material must be destroyed to, and the associated process required to safeguard the data during the destruction process. Betts is classified to destroy material up to level 5, which equates to MOD documents. This is one of the highest standards achievable for confidential destruction requirements.


Health Estate Journal September 2013


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