Recomed awarded 2015 Barema and AAGBI Environment Award

25 September 2015

Alongside project partners Axion Consulting, the British Plastics Federation are delighted to announce that their innovative PVC take-back scheme for medical waste, Recomed, has been awarded first place in the 2015 Barema and AAGBI Environment Award. 

The award recognizes excellence in sustainability and was officially presented to the Recomed team at today’s AAGBI’s Annual Congress in Edinburgh (25th September 2015).

Running since early 2014, the RecoMed scheme provides recycling containers, communication materials and collections to NHS and private hospitals that register for the scheme. PVC items currently being collected include anaesthetic masks, oxygen masks and tubing.  

Participating hospitals save money on waste disposal costs by recycling non-infectious PVC medical items instead of sending them to clinical or offensive waste streams which are currently either incinerated or sent to specialist landfill sites. RecoMed provides an opportunity to give these easily recyclable and high-quality plastics a new lease of life.

The RecoMed PVC take-back scheme is jointly funded by the BPF’s Vinyls Group and VinylPlus - the voluntary sustainable development programme of the European PVC industry, www.vinylplus.eu.

Download the RecoMed case study (http://bit.ly/RecoMed)

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Notes for editors
1.    The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the Plastics Industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.

2.    Axion Consulting is part of the Axion Group that develops and optimises processing and collection methods to recover value from waste resources for a wide range of clients within the recycling and process industries. For further information, visit: www.axionconsulting.co.uk and www.recovinyl.com.

3.    The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) is the professional membership organisation for over 10,800 anaesthetists in the UK and Ireland. www.aagbi.org

4.    Barema, the Association for Anaesthetic and Respiratory Device Suppliers, represents over 70% of companies that manufacture or supply anaesthetic and respiratory equipment in or to the UK, enabling the sector as a whole to work with the medical profession and other stakeholders to maintain its enviable reputation for exceptionally high levels of quality, safety, reliability and innovation, and the best possible anaesthetic and respiratory care. www.barema.org.uk