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Healthcare for the Environment

This resource recovery initiative is the first of its kind in Australia.

By working together, SITA-MediCollect and Johnson and Johnson Medical are working to reduce the millions of medical devices that are currently incinerated and sent to landfill from hospitals all across Australia.

Through Healthcare for the Environment, single use medical devices made of medical grade plastic and metal (steel, titanium and aluminium) are collected and treated to recover metal and plastic components.

Healthcare for the Environment offers a new, more sustainable approach to handling single-use medical devices once they are used in hospitals.

How the Initiative Works

Participating hospitals receive a bin clearly labelled Healthcare for the Environment that is placed near the operating theatre for the collection of single use medical devices.

All medical devices made of medical grade plastic and metal - regardless of whether or not they have been manufactured by Johnson and Johnson Medical - may be placed in the Healthcare for the Environment bin for collection.

SITA-MediCollect will collect the bins to treat and recover metal and plastic resources. The valuable resources collected from the devices will be processed and used in the manufacture of new products.

All other clinical waste from operating theatres must continue to be collected and disposed of according to existing hospital protocols and regulations by relevant authorities.

Find out more

• Single-use medical devices
• For more information about our services contact us on 13 13 35 or complete our online customer enquiry form.

Download more information

• Healthcare for the Environment Poster (PDF 605 KB)
• Healthcare for the Environment Booklet (PDF 3 MB)