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Ramsay on track for national recycling target

November 03, 2020

Ramsay Health Care employees have shown their commitment to a greener planet with more than five million plastic items being saved from landfill in just four months.​

Ramsay Australia’s mission to remove 24 million single use plastic items per year was launched on World Environment Day in June 2020, with sites around the country taking on the challenge to cut back on plastics.

Just four months into the program, by 30 September 2020, an incredible 5,147,333 plastic items had been saved from landfill. This includes items such as drinking cups and lids, cutlery, plates, stirrers, straws, kidney dishes and most medication cups. 

Hollywood Private Hospital and Joondalup Health Campus in Western Australia are among those to have made the move away from single use plastic water bottles to reusable jugs and cups. They join more than 30 other facilities that already provide sustainable drinking water alternatives. 

These two hospitals have collectively saved 830,000 single-use plastic water bottles from being produced, transported and disposed of, which equates to almost 22,000 kilograms of plastic waste not ending up in landfill each year.

Sustainability Ambassador at Joondalup Health Campus Calum McLeod said employees and patients had embraced the program.

“It’s one of those things we knew we needed to do and I think there’s been a real shift where people seem to more engaged with what happens to our waste, there’s definitely an appetite for change,” Mr McLeod said.

“Our people could see Ramsay Australia was committed to making the change and people have been really accepting and want to do the right thing by removing those single-use plastic water bottles.

“830,000 - that’s a lot of bottles of water!” he said.

Both Hollywood and Joondalup’s switch to reusable jugs and cups was made possible thanks to funding from the Environmental Sustainability Fund.

Other Ramsay sites wanting to make the switch should contact National Environment Manager Sue Panuccio at panucciosue@ramsayhealth.com.au

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