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SUMMARY Now in its second year, Warwickshire’s Grey to Green food waste recycling campaign has achieved an astounding 71% increase in food waste capture rates coupled with disposal and treatment savings of nearly £450,000 a year. Meanwhile nearly 15,000 households have actively pledged to recycle all their food waste, and annual CO2 equivalent savings are estimated to be around 3,000 tonnes. Thanks to the campaign, 21% of household food waste is now being correctly captured…

Background Not long ago, it was estimated that around one in seven letters delivered in the UK came from H.M. Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Since then, we’ve changed our process to eliminate c.100 million letters and the carbon emissions associated with transporting them, cut 1.3 million sheets of paper each year through reducing the number of paper-based tax return reminders, and procured 170 million fewer sheets of paper for internal use. In addition, our ‘closed…

Introduction to Sustainability at Barnsley Hospital Barnsley Hospital is a small acute Trust with a big ambition to become truly sustainable. We are fully committed to sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint through our Estates Strategy, Board-approved Sustainable Development Management and Action Plans’ (SDMP & SDAP). Since 2011 when we published our first SDMP, sustainability has been at the heart of everything we do. We have been making good progress against the objectives we set…