The Clinique de Montberon is a psychiatric clinic with a long-standing commitment to CSR, and is one of only a handful of healthcare establishments to generate electricity. The clinic takes care not only of its patients, but also of its employees. Benefiting from an exceptional setting north-east of Toulouse, patients, often on medium-term stays, can take their minds off their illnesses by indulging in botanical activities in the clinic's therapeutic greenhouse.
Supervaltech clinic's garbage problem
The Supervaltech clinic has identified local service providers, both for recycling paper, batteries and WEEE through a social enterprise, and for compacting cardboard and reselling it in bales. Above all, the clinic has reduced its hazardous waste by 25%.
Recyclable compounds from medical devices: ideas for action
At CHU de Rennes (35), the DM recycling initiative involves sorting and recycling metal waste from operating theatres, such as the copper contained in electric scalpels and the stainless steel contained in laryngoscope blades. This initiative helps to finance the purchase of soft toys for hospitalized children, to make their time in the operating room less dramatic. The metals are recycled by a local company for the benefit of the association "Les P'tits Doudous du CHU de Rennes".
Why it's so important to sort bio-waste
Sorting biowaste at source is the only way to guarantee quality sorting and divert biowaste from landfill or incineration. Biowaste is non-hazardous waste, but landfilling it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Organic recovery, on the other hand, treats biowaste in a sustainable way, returning the compost from composting or the digestate from methanization to the soil.
Ask yourself the right questions .... and find the answers.
Medicamentsdansleau.org is an awareness-raising project developed around the Bellecombe pilot site in Haute Savoie. The ambition of this project, built collectively with health professionals, water professionals, elected representatives and local residents, is to build messages around the issue of medication in water.
Controlling food waste
How does it work to sustainably reduce food waste and intelligently recycle bio-waste in medical and social establishments? The community of communes of the Ambert district in the Puy-de-Dôme region has taken the problem head-on, with an action plan implemented in six retirement homes and ESATs in its area. The results are spectacular: a 10-tonne reduction in food waste since the start of the project for the six establishments, 23 tonnes of composted waste, i.e. 33 tonnes of waste avoided.
Eco-organization DASTRI, new C2DS partner
C2DS has signed up a new partner, the eco-organization DASTRI. DASTRI provides self-treatment patients and users of self-tests for the diagnosis of transmissible infectious diseases with special containers called "needle boxes" for the collection and processing of sharps waste.
Waste: free of charge and transfer of responsibility thanks to eco-organizations
Eco-organizations are private companies operating in the public interest, approved by the State and remunerated by producers subject to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Each offers a collection and treatment service, generally free of charge, for one or more categories of waste. C2DS partners include Corepile, Ecologic, Eco-mobilier, Récylum and Valdelia. Here's an overview of the key eco-organizations for your establishments.
Recycle your used electrical equipment and kitchen furniture
Valo Resto Pro® is a global collection and recycling scheme for the "professional kitchen and catering" sector, as well as an environmental quality label, attesting to producers' commitment to managing the end-of-life of their marketed equipment (collection, depollution, recycling) in a way that respects the environment and the law.
Center Hospitalier Paul Coste-Floret and Clinique Ster rewarded for waste reduction initiatives
Congratulations to Centre Hospitalier Paul Coste-Floret and Clinique Ster, winners of the new "Eco-exemplaire" competition launched this year. Their actions to reduce waste were rewarded at the Eco-Dialogues opening ceremony on February 24.
Never at the end of your rope
The Centre Lillois de réadaptation professionnelle (59) has succeeded in reducing its consumption of wiping and central-winding paper rolls in its workshops by 60%, and the same amount of upstream waste, simply by lowering the height of the dispensers.
Platinum, a precious metal at a premium
The care team in the cardiac rhythmology department at the Pasteur clinic in Toulouse knocked on the risk management door: why not sort and recycle the platinum part of single-use cardiac examination probes? It was up to the technical manager to find a solution to prevent the precious metal from being thrown away with the DASRI.
A food shredder for the Polyclinique Saint-François
As part of its sustainable development approach, the Polyclinique Saint-François in Nice has opted to install a food shredder to dispose of its bio-waste. "Following a study, we installed a food shredder right next to the dishwashing bins. The food waste generated by the production of 100 meals a day for staff and patients is discharged, crushed and transported with the wastewater to the wastewater treatment plant. This system has won unanimous approval among catering staff: less handling, less transport, less household waste.
SD Week 2016: Clinique du Pré's good ideas
For Clinique du Pré in Le Mans, Sustainable Development Week is a key component of its CSR approach. On the program: eco-mobility in all its forms, with a looped slide show on eco-driving and an information stand on electric vehicles; the opportunity for teams to get behind the wheel of the clinic's two electric vehicles, and a demonstration of electrically-assisted bicycle models on a test track set up outside in the parking lot; a presentation of the clinic's 22 sorting facilities and the fate of waste; and a special employee game on sorting DASRI.
The biowaste power duo
The Parc Rambot polyclinic (13) didn't wait until January 1, 2016 to comply with legislation on biowaste. With its catering service provider, a plan of attack was drawn up as early as 2014, with the implementation of a sorting channel and the purchase of a dehydrator that reduces the volume of bio-waste by 70 to 80%.
Les opérations de cataracte coûtent en CO2 400 fois le tour de la Terre en avion
Avec environ 650 000 interventions en France de la cataracte, cet acte chirurgical a une empreinte environnementale massive.
Réduction à la source de déchets à l’Hôpital privé Saint Claude
C’est par un cadeau que la suppression des gobelets en plastique a démarré : celui de tasses lavables offertes par le CE à l’ensemble des salariés. Le Comité de développement durable créé en 2015 et la direction décidaient d’éliminer tous les gobelets en plastique jetables utilisés par les patients et les personnels. Une anecdote ? Non, une démarche structurée de réduction à la source des déchets et qui a commencé par celui du papier.
Les biodéchets, un bien précieux
La Clinique de l’Estrée (93), fortement ancrée sur son territoire, a choisi pour la gestion de ses biodéchets de « transformer les contraintes en énergie positive» en s’alliant à l’entreprise Moulinot, entreprise locale agréée solidaire et d’utilité sociale. Elle collecte depuis 2013 les biodéchets de restaurants, collectivités et établissements de soins de la région parisienne, pour les transformer en biogaz et compost.
Poster "I avoid waste = I choose my portion".
To complement the "Commitments to sustainable catering" campaign, C2DS offers you the "I avoid waste = I choose my portion" poster. "Reducing the quantities served to reduce waste works well: it's a good idea to offer one, two or three spoons at self-service", explains Olivier Holweck, sustainable development consultant at Primum non nocere®, a C2DS subsidiary.
Biowaste at Carcassonne Hospital: a barometer of catering issues
The Carcassonne hospital is a pioneer in the Carcassonne area when it comes to collecting bio-waste. Since February 2016, the hospital's catering team has been meticulously sorting the leftovers on its meal trays.