The Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK. It provides day to day health services to a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan who need hospital treatment, mental health care, care for elderly people and children as well as a growing range of community-based services, including specialist dental services, and new therapies as alternatives to hospital admission.
Patients also attend from across Wales for a range of specialist services, for which the Trust is regarded as a centre of excellence, including paediatric, renal, cardiac, neurological services and bone marrow transplantation.
In 2006/2007 the Trust's total income was £610m and it employed approximately 13,500 staff.
Wheelie bins for recycling waste.
The Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust implemented mixed recycling plan in April 2007, the plan was fully implemented in both the clinical and non-clinical areas at the following sites:
Rookwood Hospital
West Wing Hospital
CRI Hospital
Barry Hospital
Whitchurch Hospital
The Trust also introduced mixed recycling at the University Hospital of Wales in many non-clinical areas.
The implementation of the recycling programme has been successful within the hospital that WEEE collections were introduced along with a WEEE recycling contract that would ensure the reduced disposal costs for the trust.
The trust have recorded that since they began recording WEEE tonnages they have managed to recycle at least 13.62 tonnes of waste.
The Trust were planning to introduce the mixed recycling at the Llandough Hospital in September 2008 and are committed to fully implementing the mixed recycling scheme at the University Hospital of Wales during the 2009-10 financial year.
