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Y Busnes o Ailgylchu Cymru. The Business of Recycling Wales. WRAP Cymru'
Guidance for
Hospitals

Additional resources and information

Overview

Natural Resources Wales is responsible for regulating the separation requirements and bans to landfill. It has produced information on their approaches to regulating the Workplace Recycling Law

There is a ban on Single Use Plastics including plastic cutlery, drink stirrers, polystyrene products and drinking straws.

Plastic packaging in the hospitality and food service industry (WRAP) provides many challenges and opportunities, the UK Plastic Pact has four targets working towards a world where plastic is valued. There are actions you can take to achieve these targets.

The Food waste reduction roadmap toolkit provides actions to help you reduce food waste. To see what others have done go to Hospitality and food service case studies on the WRAP website.

If you are looking for ideas of what to do with leftover food, Surplus food hub can help, also available on the WRAP website.

Preventing waste in the healthcare sector | WRAP A step-by-step guide to enable hospital caterers to reduce food and associated packaging waste and to recycle more. Produced by WRAP and developed with the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA).

Guides include:

  • Measuring food waste

  • Opportunities in the ward

  • Opportunities in the kitchen

Food waste in the NHS | WRAP This guide aims to help waste management companies understand how best to meet the food waste collection service requirements of NHS hospitals. There are a number of case studies included on this page.

Public sector organisations can utilise framework contract agreements procured by professional buying organisations such as:

  • Sell2Wales (www.sell2wales.gov) to procure goods and services, saving you the time and effort, and possibly money too.

  • The Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO) (www.espo.org) provides a framework for the procurement of collection services for waste, dry recycling and food waste via Framework 379_21

  • YPO (Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation www.ypo.co.uk) provides a range of frameworks under its Facilities and Waste Management section for the procurement of goods and services such as compostable liners, indoor and outdoor waste and recycling containers, wheeled bins and recycling services.

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