From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 05 Nov 2009
Time: 10:03:14 +0100
Remote Name: 86.166.6.159
The launch of 10:10, a campaign with the aim of getting people, organisations, education and business to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 is already claiming successes. Among these successes is the Nottingham NHS Trust and their particularly eye-catching scheme that recycles clinical waste into building hoardings etc.
http://realiseclimate.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/1010-highlights-nottingham-nhs-trust/
Good for them. There is much opportunity for recycling of materials from ATT-treated clinical waste with recovery of plastics, paper fibre, metals and finally energy from the high calorific residual fraction. Prime among waste fractions ripe for recycling is the sharps bin and its content.
Almost 100% plastic, there is a great opportunity presently being thwarted by an obstructive attitude exhibited by the Environment Agency and individuals who favour incineration on the grounds of a perceived but unproven and largely misguided belief that pharmaceutical residues in sharps bins will be harmful to the environment. I disagree with that view, and with the particularly unreasonable barriers being created by the Agency due in great part to the unacceptable behaviour of one individual.