We partnered with University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust to help them build an understanding of their waste and resource use. We focussed on their three acute sites in Lancaster, Kendal, and Barrow in Furness. Over a month, we audited the clinical and domestic waste of every ward and department in each hospital. The project gave them invaluable insight into their flow of materials.

Here is what Clare Grootendorst, UHMBT Waste Manager, had to say about our partnership:

'Waste is an important aspect of any healthcare facility, and ensuring we are doing what is best for the Trust, our patients, staff, and the planet is paramount. We are excited to be working with NuGreen, a local company to Morecambe Bay on our journey to analyse the waste we are producing. The information gathered will help the Trust to improve its segregation, sustainability and can be applied to future innovations in waste management.'

Lonsdale Health Products are a local health and wellbeing supplement manufacturer. We partnered with Lonsdale Health Products to help them on their continual sustainability efforts.

Before our partnership, LHP had already made great strides in becoming more sustainable. Examples of their efforts made are installing LED lights across their premises, timers for their lights in certain rooms and hallways, solar heating for their hot water, air source heat pump to provide ambient heating for the building and heat their water, and industrial recycling for their packaging.

We worked with LHP to further align them with B Corp standards by tracking their waste, utility usage, and Scope 2 emissions in more detail, as well as starting to build a sustainable culture throughout their business. With this data, we can now highlight key impact areas for change and build robust strategies with data-driven decisions.

We are delighted to have been appointed to work with Synnovis and Integral to support the sustainable optimisation of their Blackfriars laboratory in London.

Synnovis is a partnership between SYNLAB UK & Ireland, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

The Blackfriars state-of-the-art ‘hub’ laboratory looks to bring cutting-edge instrumentation, technology and innovation together under one roof. The hub is one of the largest, purpose-built pathology laboratories in the UK, designed to meet the needs of modern-day healthcare services.

NuGreen are working to support the Blackfriars site in a comprehensive waste strategy and ongoing supply chain analysis to keep making valuable carbon reductions. Optimised bin placement to support segregation of waste in phase one will lead to the best opportunities to recycle as much material as possible, we will support them with training and education and look to provide various pilot studies with them to support innovation and sustainable development.

The NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board are our local ICB, and we were proud to implement our 4 Stage Approach to help them reduce the costs and carbon emissions associated with their waste and resource use. We focussed on the primary care sector of the ICB, by working with GP surgeries in the area.

We started by auditing their waste and surveying the sites, analysed all the data to find key impact areas, optimised their sites for sustainability in tandem with staff training, and finally reaudited to track the progress. The project saved the ICB an average of £529 and 519kg CO2e per tonne of clinical waste!

Here is what Sarah Hopkins, Clinical Lead for Primary Care for Green NHS, said about the project:

'NuGreen completed a waste audit at our practice. It required very little input from practice staff and caused no disruption. We have saved hundreds of pounds as well as reduced our carbon emissions, from learning which waste bags are right for us.'

Crossbank Dental Care are a dental practice based in Kendal, Cumbria, who have a passion for delivering high quality patient care and driving sustainable dentistry. They wanted to better understand their flow of materials and find ways to cut their costs and carbon emissions. We helped the practice improve segregation rates and drive material efficiencies as well as support them in their sustainability journey. We are proud to support a small local business in their efforts to make healthcare a greener industry!