Total waste management for clinical waste professionals
Our specialist clinical waste management collection service guarantees the secure and traceable treatment and disposal of the complete range of clinical and healthcare waste.
100% compliance guaranteed
Ability to treat all clinical waste
Expert advice from clinical waste experts
Sustainable healthcare waste solutions that won’t risk your reputation
The collection and disposal of clinical waste is highly-regulated by the Environment Agency.
By offering a total waste management service, we take care of issues such as segregation, security and traceability. Owning and operating industry-leading facilities, we ensure customers remain 100% compliant across a full range of clinical waste, including offensive, infectious, sharps, pharmaceutical, cytotoxic/cytostatic medicines, anatomical, washroom and low-level radioactive waste.
At the same time, we work hard to help you cut CO2 emissions and meet your waste environmental goals through innovative ideas and employee awareness programmes.
Award-winning expertise and excellence in clinical waste disposal
Our clinical waste collection and disposal service is trusted by the NHS, leading life science institutions, local authorities, GP surgeries, dentists, veterinary surgeries, nursing homes, facilities management experts, cleaning companies and many more.
We’ve won awards for our clinical waste customers by increasing recycling and improving sustainability, achieving zero waste to landfill, boosting employee waste awareness, delivering innovative ideas, and, above all, guaranteeing 100% compliance.
Zero waste to landfill
Our network of treatment facilities enables us to divert 100% of your clinical waste from landfill
Free pre-acceptance auditing
Our clinical waste customers have full access to our pre-acceptance auditing tools at no extra charge
CarbonNeutral® collections
Every collection we carry out is certified CarbonNeutral®, so all our journeys are carbon free, providing you with an environmentally-friendly Clinical Waste collection service.
A bespoke and flexible service dedicated to meeting your clinical waste management needs
From the moment we start working with you, our focus is on delivering a compliant, cost-effective and sustainable service that meets your clinical waste management needs.
Our free pre-acceptance audit process enables us to identify the best solution for your clinical waste and our range of treatment options includes our High Temperature Energy Recovery Incineration facility for highly-infectious materials, our Alternative Treatment facility for infectious orange bagged clinical waste, and our Energy from Waste facility for offensive waste.
Why choose Grundon?
Cutting your CO2 emissions
We proactively work with healthcare professionals to help them reduce the carbon impacts of their waste management and to meet the sustainability targets outlined in the new NHS Clinical Waste Strategy
We own a range of specialist treatment facilities
We own and operate a range of dedicated fully licensed clinical waste treatment facilities. These include High Temperature Incineration, Alternative Treatment and Energy from Waste for the disposal offensive waste.
Trusted and experienced clinical waste experts
Our award-winning clinical waste collection and disposal service has been built on years of expertise. We are trusted by the NHS, leading life science institutions, local authorities and many other sectors who rely on us.
Our customer’s points of view
We’re here to help with advice and information about everything from how to lower the cost of your clinical waste collections, to how you can improve sustainability and reduce your carbon emissions – helping you to meet the targets set out in the new NHS Clinical Waste Strategy.
Setting up your clinical waste collections couldn’t be any easier. Simply follow these steps today and we’ll provide you with a professional and reliable healthcare waste management service.
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Tell us about your waste
Tell us about the types and quantities of healthcare waste you generate or schedule a convenient time for one of our waste experts to carry out a free waste audit.
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Get a quote
We’ll provide you with a proposal for a bespoke clinical waste management service which is tailored to meet your exact needs.
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Schedule a collection
We’ll deliver your bins or containers, schedule your collections and start providing you with a first class waste management service – it’s that easy!
Total waste management for healthcare professionals
For healthcare and research professionals, dealing with clinical waste can be an essential part of everyday activity.
Our award-winning clinical waste collection and disposal service has been built on years of expertise and, with compliance playing such an important role in the healthcare sector, we take great pride in our ability to ensure our customers meet the latest legislative requirements.
We encourage the correct segregation of waste, helping you to keep costs down by identifying the most cost-effective disposal routes, while guaranteeing no risks are taken with the disposal of infectious waste.
For example, the incineration of infectious waste is up to five times more expensive than the disposal of offensive waste in an Energy from Waste facility, while the Alternative Treatment of infectious waste is around twice as expensive compared to its disposal as offensive waste.
Our treatment options include:
- Offensive waste treated at our Energy from Waste facilities, where the incineration process generates green electricity for export to the National Grid.
- Infectious, orange bagged clinical waste sent to our Alternative Treatment facility, where it is fed into an industrial shredder and rendered safe through a unique steam treating process, producing a finely shredded dry waste called flock, which can be used as Refuse Derived Fuel.
- Highly-infectious materials, sharps bins, pharmaceutical, cytotoxic/cytostatic medicines, and anatomical waste sent to our High Temperature Energy Recovery Incineration facility. Not only does this divert waste from landfill, but the steam created is used to power a steam turbine to generate electricity.
To help with simple and safe segregation, we supply an extensive range of colour-coded and UN certified containers, sacks and wheeled bins, and organise events and education programmes to help promote best practice.
The fact we own our own clinical waste facilities means we can tailor collections based on the volumes of waste you produce, which also helps to reduce the number of vehicle movements.
Our clinical waste operation is completely self-sufficient in green energy, further helping our customers to put another tick on their environmental credentials and, because our specialist collection vehicles are certified CarbonNeutral®, all our journeys are carbon free.
Frequently asked questions
Who regulates the disposal of clinical waste?
The Environment Agency is the regulating authority and the Department of Health provides the necessary guidance for the regulations.
Why do I need a specialist clinical waste management company to handle my waste and how do I know what you’ve done with it?
The challenges of staying compliant with all the necessary legislation are numerous and time-consuming. Working with a reputable and expert clinical waste management team of professionals ensures absolute compliance and can also help you achieve environmental goals, such as diverting waste away from landfill and reducing your carbon footprint.
We will provide the necessary reporting data and certification for you to be able to prove correct compliance and full traceability and security. We keep accurate records and find our customers really benefit from being able to see where improvements, such as increased recycling and reduced carbon footprint, have been achieved.
Can you really help me save money and meet my environmental goals?
Yes, we’ve helped many organisations to improve their sustainability record and make significant savings. For example:
• In some Trusts, we have successfully diverted offensive waste (nappies, tissues, dressings etc from non-infectious sources) from infectious waste streams by installing new bins and amending signage. The offensive waste is sent to Energy from Waste facilities, where it creates green energy and provides a much more cost-effective disposal option than Alternative Treatment or High Temperature Incineration. This has saved NHS Trusts money and improved their environmental credentials
• We installed cardboard balers to encourage greater segregation of cardboard and collected enough cardboard to give Trusts a rebate
• Thanks to a suggestion from a consultant, we introduced a PVC RecoMed take-back scheme for the segregation and collection of single-use PVC oxygen masks and tubing from recovery rooms. This diverted the material from clinical waste incineration, therefore saving money, and sent it for recycling – saving on disposal costs and reducing carbon emissions
• Other innovative ideas that have come from healthcare teams have included the recycling of baby bottles and empty aluminium anaesthetic gas bottles
• We introduced new recycling bins for printer and toner cartridges, taking them out of general waste bins
• We have helped recruit teams of Waste Champions and supported them with training and information to share with colleagues
Our focus is very much on a tailored approach and our clinical waste experts know how to make a difference.
In 2019, we were thrilled when three of our NHS Trust customers won Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice in the Wastes Management NHS and Healthcare category.
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust won a prestigious Gold Green Apple Award, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust received a Silver, and London North West Healthcare (LNWH) NHS Trust won a Bronze.
How can you help us to better engage employees in improving waste management?
We know that good communications are the key to success in helping employees understand the benefits of good waste management.
Training is essential, we work closely with our customers to ensure that individuals and departments at all levels have the confidence and information they need to improve recycling. As a result, it is often employees who come to us with new ideas for recycling different products, and many of these have been adopted.
- Waste Awareness Days and events
- Helping set up Green Teams and groups of Waste Champions
- Sharing expertise and advice via sustainability newsletters
- Online and face-to-face training sessions, including opportunities to engage with shift workers
- Tailored events for areas with high non-conformance rates
- A dedicated direct phone number helping staff with specific waste management enquiries
- Better labelling and signage for clinical waste bins
- Relocation of clinical waste bins to encourage more recycling
- Posters explaining the do’s and don’ts of clinical waste recycling for hospital wards and departments
- Training and induction on new or specialist equipment, such as balers or compactors
- Enabling customers to share statistics about improving waste management with their employees so they can see what a difference they are making
Entering awards – several NHS Trusts and other customers have won awards for waste management best practice by working with us
Is clinical waste only produced by the healthcare profession?
No. The term clinical waste also applies to certain wastes collected from a wide range of organisations. These will include care and nursing homes, life science establishments, universities, specialist clinics, tattoo parlours, dental surgeries, veterinary surgeries, hairdressers and beauty salons.
Our team of experts can advise on the best compliant and cost-effective disposal methods for all clinical waste.
What are the benefits of using Grundon’s total waste management service?
Peace of mind that your operation is fully compliant with all legislation and the knowledge that you are working with an award-winning company which guarantees the safe and secure disposal of all your clinical wastes. Our years of expertise and the fact we have our own in-house facilities enables us to provide services and solutions at cost-effective prices.
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