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Clinical waste has become one of the largest financial and environmental costs for hospitals, costing £373 million a year and being responsible for up to 5.4% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.

With clinical waste being one of the biggest financial and environmental problems for the NHS, Curo aims to revolutionise how the NHS manages and disposes it. This strategy could generate 54 million kW of energy and save the NHS £200 million every year.

Following on from the recent success of winning the regional SME of the Year award, Newcastle-based Peacock Group has won a prestigious national sustainability award in recognition of its new, innovative solution to reduce carbon emissions within the NHS.

Recycle Week 2022 is here and the theme is ‘Let’s get real about recycling’. This year’s theme aims to challenge perceptions and myths around recycling and target contamination to improve recycling behaviours.

Clinical waste has become the majority of hospitals’ highest financial cost. With the financial cost, also comes questions of waste and sustainability. Here, we explore the problems with clinical waste and our how our Curo solution can help…

With the processing of clinical waste come questions of sustainability. Here, we explore the problems the medical sector faces with waste and possible solutions for creating less of an impact on the environment…