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1st April 2017 PVC Recycling in Hospitals continues to grow with now over 90 hospitals in Australia/New Zealand. This Australian innovation is gaining awards in Australia and overseas. One day it will be normal practice.

Congratulations to these hospitals who are recycling their PVC and setting a great example to their communities. Some have recently started by recycling in one ward. Others have now integrated PVC recycling across all practical areas and have achieved minimal contamination. For them it is now part of good practice.

We can now also list training organisations that are including PVC recycling in course delivery, and welcome our first Veterinary —in Mildura, .

To help facilitate the change over to recycling we provide free videos and newsletters (click here) and we welcome questions, data and offers of assistance.

The PVC Recycling program is part of New Zealand (28) the Vinyl Council Australia’s product Auckland - City stewardship program with members. Auckland – Green Lane As a not-for-profit professional Bidwell Bidwell – Timaru industry association, the VCA Dunedin Hospital appreciates the word-of-mouth and Evolution– Bowen ‘seeing is believing’ network that Forte Health brings more hospitals to the Forte Health – Christchurch program. This partially explains the Hutt Valley different rates of participation, as Kensington Mercy – Dunedin well as the fact that collections Middlemore started in WA and Qld in late 2016 Napier and will commence in South New Plymouth Hospital Australia as hospital registrations of Rotorua interest grow. Royston To find out more and register your SC – Brightside SC – Christchurch interest in recycling click link here. SC – Gillies SC – Hamilton New South Wales (5) SC – Invercargill Bathurst SC – Manuka St Kareena Southland – Invercargill Liverpool Hospital St George Orange St. Georges – Christchurch SAN Wahronga Tauranga Hospital Wairarapa Wellington Hospital Queensland (6) Victoria (49)

John Flynn Hospital—Gold Coast Alfred Hospital North Park Private Hospital Mater Hospital Brisbane Bairnsdale Hospital Northeast Kidney Dialysis Mater Hospital Springfield Ballarat Health Services Northern Health – Craigieburn Princess Alexandra Hospital Barwon Health – Dialysis Centre Northern Health – Renal Unit Royal Brisbane Hospital Bendigo Renal Unit Ramsay / Linacre Private St Andrews Hospital—Brisbane Broadmeadows – Renal Royal Brunswick Dialysis Royal Women’s Melb Cabrini – Brighton Sale Hospital Tasmania (10) Cabrini – Malvern Sandringham Hospital

Calvary - Lenah Valley Coburg Dialysis SJOG – Specialist Centre – Geelong Calvary St Johns DHHS Health – Bacchus Marsh South West Healthcare – Camperdown Churchill – Acton Park East Melbourne Day Procedure Centre South West Healthcare - Warrnambool Karingal Renal Unit – New Town Epworth – Geelong St John of God Berwick Launceston General Epworth – Richmond St John of God Geelong Launceston Renal – Kings Meadow Epworth Eastern – Box Hill Terang Health Service Mercy - Latrobe Hospital Hospital The Bays – Mornington Nephrology – New Town Frankston Hospital University Hospital Barwon – Geelong North West Renal - Burnie Hastings Dialysis Warringal Private Royal Hobart Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Western – Footscray Melbourne Eastern Hospital Angliss Western – Sunbury South Australia (0) Health Western – Sunshine Mildura Veterinary Hospital Western – Williamstown Monash - Dandenong Hospital Western Private Western Australia (2) Monash Health - Clayton Yarra Ranges Health

Monash Health — Casey Sir Charles Gardiner Monash Health—Cranbourne St John of God Murdoch

Training Places (2)

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Victoria University

If correctly separated in hospitals, this PVC is so good it can be easily made into quality product and given a new long life.

Thanks to all who recycle in hospitals. Great work. A special thanks to our wonderful partners in our suppliers, reprocessors and collectors, in particular VCA members Baxter Healthcare and Welvic Australia. To contribute useful Fast Facts or Top Tips to help others and share stories, Recycling would be impossible without all contact us. To find out more about this product stewardship program or to get participants working together to ensure this involved, contact us: material goes to a better place than landfill. 1.02 Junction Business Centre, 22 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 3182 T: +61 3 9510 1717 E: [email protected] W:www.vinyl.org.au ACN: 083 012 533

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