The Strategic Health Authority
A Northern Strategic Health Authority (SHA) became
the first in the country to tackle the growing issue of
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).
The Commercial Procurement Collaborative commissioned WE³
Recycled Ltd a distributor of Weeeco, to undertake a benchmarking
exercise of its 16 NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts throughout
South Yorkshire (serving approximately 400 establishments).
WE³ Recycled Ltd was set up with assistance from Weeeco
to help businesses and organisations nationally deal with
their WEEE liabilities and was engaged to establish the
volumes of historical WEEE at the SHA’s many NHS Trusts
and Primary Care Trusts. Historic WEEE is electrical equipment
purchased before 13th August 2005 (either accumulated or
still in use).
The objective of the benchmarking exercise was to asses
how much electrical waste has been accumulated by their
NHS Trusts and to look at its disposal in an environmentally
and socially responsible manner in order to comply with
the WEEE Directive. Once the scale of the historic WEEE
has been calculated, WE³ will draft a Pre-Qualifying Questionnaire
and a Tender Specification to enable companies to tender
for the WEEE disposal contract.
The exercise covers all sites within the SHA’s area that
have registered an interest in participating. Although
quantities of WEEE can not be determined prior to the audit,
the experts at WE³ predict that there will be significant
quantities which will include the disposal of biomedical
waste, estates waste, business waste and general waste.
“With the DEFRA deadline for the introduction of WEEE legislation
in the UK being January 1st 2007 it’s important that we
act now to comply with our responsibilities. We selected
WE³ Recycled Ltd because of the reputation they have, and
because we have found them to be a constant source of up-to-date
information regarding the Directive. We’re thrilled that
the SHA is leading the way and showing a great example
to the rest of the country,” commented the project officer
for the Commercial Procurement Collaborative.
The NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative has been working
in partnership with the Regional Development Agency, to
help their SME’s win contracts from the National Health
Service bodies in the region. “We’re proud to be working
with WE3 to unlocking some of the perceived barriers experienced
by the region’s businesses in bidding for NHS contracts,”
added the project officer.
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