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Recycling Policy

Policy Statement

All organisations produce waste and are increasingly required to ensure that they deal with that waste in an environmentally acceptable way that is compliant with the law. It is, therefore, the policy of this care service to minimise the waste generated by its activities through increased use of reuse and recycling. The service expects all staff to adhere to the following policies on the reuse and recycling of waste.

Background

All modern organisations are under increasing pressure to adopt environmentally acceptable waste management policies and to reduce the amount of waste that they produce. The world cannot continue to dispose of huge quantities of waste to landfill or incineration and must make better use of waste reduction strategies, including recycling schemes.

This care service recognises its need to function in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way and views the reduction of waste as a key aim. In this context, {{org_field_name}} will apply the principles of the “waste hierarchy” in all of its processes and operations.

The waste hierarchy sets out, in order of priority, the waste management options that a business should consider as follows.

  1. Prevent the waste being produced.
  2. Reuse the waste.
  3. Recycle the waste.
  4. Recovery, eg energy recovery.
  5. Disposal.

Waste Reduction

{{org_field_name}} understands the “waste hierarchy” to describe how effective some approaches to dealing with waste are when compared to others, principally that the prevention of the creation of waste in the first place is the best option and is more effective than recycling, while recycling is preferable to disposing of waste to landfill or incineration.

Therefore, this care service will:

Recycling

{{org_field_name}} understands recycling to be a relatively simple and direct way for everyone in the organisation to contribute to environmental savings and expects staff to adhere to the following.


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