Medical Equipment: Recycling
Commons · Question 44318 · Tabled 4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential (a) environmental and (b) financial merits of implementing nationwide recycling programmes for durable medical equipment.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 17 Apr 2025
As set out in the Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service report, published in October 2020, the NHS is committed to reducing its environmental impact, including by improving resilience and increasing the reuse, remanufacture, and recycling of medic...