This project is a NSW Environment Protection Authority, Waste Less Recycle More initiative funded from the waste levy.
Creating a circular economy for sterilisation wrap and other waste plastics
At WrapBack™, we help hospitals and health care facilities set up a recycling program that works, so you can protect patients and the planet.
Attention hospitals and health care facilities!
Hospitals send thousands of kilograms of sterilisation wrap to landfill every single year.
And that’s where it will stay forever because plastic doesn’t biodegrade.
We set out to change this. Firstly, we unwrapped the reasons why hospitals weren’t recycling sterilisation wrap. Then, we came up with a solution.
If you’ve been frustrated with seeing bag after bag of perfectly clean wrap go to landfill, if you’re not sure where to start when it comes to setting up a recycling program, if you’ve searched for a viable solution but came up short; then you’re in the right place. Here’s why…
Start recycling your sterilisation wrap today
At WrapBack™, we help hospitals and health care facilities set up a recycling program that works, so your hospital can protect patients and the planet. We’ll help you:
Register for free today!
Free registration available now for a limited time only.
How it works
WrapBack™ Blueprint
Hospitals and health care facilities follow the WrapBack™ Blueprint to review and set up a sterilisation wrap recycling program. Staff are educated about the new sustainability initiative.
Segregate
Staff segregate clean sterilisation wrap for recycling.
Collect
Clean sterilisation wrap is collected from hospitals and health care facilities and transported to recyclers by your chosen collector.
Recycle
We are working with Plasmar to help hospitals seeking a transparent and sustainable recycling solution for their waste plastics. Plasmar provides a complete chain of custody and full transparency for a range of hospital plastics including sterilisation wrap and hard plastics. Plasmar manufacturers a range of Australian made, 100% recycled plastic products that can be used in the hospital environment and health infrastructure projects.
Sustainable Procurement
We can help you to explore the range of recycled plastic products that can be purchased and utilised in your environment to deliver circular economy outcomes. Recycling AND sustainable procurement delivers valuable social, environmental, and economic outcomes.
The WrapBack™ Blueprint
Step by step instructions
WrapBack™ members receive step by step instructions for reviewing and implementing sterilisation wrap recycling. We call it: The WrapBack™ Blueprint.
The WrapBack™ Blueprint covers:
- The business case for recycling sterilisation wrap
- What equipment to use
- How to organise collections from your health care facility – use our scripts word for word!
- Guidance on setting up internal processes for a seamless recycling system that everyone can get behind
- How to engage and motivate staff to recycle (and recycle right)
The WrapBack™ Blueprint will help you set up a recycling program with ease, confidence and support from management. We’ve done all the hard work for you, so you can do what you do best: save lives.
Reduce your landfill disposal costs
The WrapBack™ Blueprint will help you determine if recycling sterilisation wrap makes good business sense for your facility. We want to help you implement a solution that provides a cost-saving for your organisation or is at least cost-neutral. This is in addition to all of the wonderful environmental and social outcomes it will bring.
How do we do this? Your membership includes a WrapBack™ Savings and Cost Calculator that, as the name suggests, will help you work out the savings and costs, in dollar terms, to recycle your sterilisation wrap.
You get 12-months access to all the resources and support needed to review and implement a viable and sustainable solution to suit your healthcare facility. No lock-in contracts and no risk.
WrapBack™ will save you time and money
Wouldn’t your job be easier if you had step by step instructions for how to review and set up a new recycling process for sterilisation wrap?
By following the steps in the WrapBack™ Blueprint, you can save yourself the time and hassle of having to figure it all out on your own. For a small investment, you can simply start now. This could save you thousands of dollars and many hours searching for the answers.
WrapBack™ is for you if you are:
- A hospital or health care employee frustrated with sending sterilisation wrap to landfill
- Looking to reduce waste and reduce costs at your hospital or health care facility
- Not sure where to start when it comes to setting up a new recycling program
- Committed to protecting both patients and the planet
- A hospital or health care facility in NSW. WrapBack™ is coming to other states soon!
Are you located outside of NSW?
Preregister now and be the first to know when WrapBack™ comes to your state. The more facilities that sign up, the faster we can expand to your area.
Why listen to us?
Behind WrapBack™ is a team of people who are just like you. People who are committed to making the world a better place. People who don’t like wastefulness, and value resourcefulness.
Take Samantha Cross, for example. Samantha started a business aimed at reducing and recycling soft plastic out of sheer frustration at the lack of available solutions in Australia. Five awards, three successful grants, 49 news articles, 9 mentees and three chairperson roles later… Samantha is at the helm of two circular economy businesses tackling plastic waste: WrapBack™ and Plastic Police®.
Samantha has helped hundreds of organisations reduce their waste to landfill, get better at recycling and be part of the circular economy. And it all started with a passion to do one thing to help her community reduce waste. You’re in good hands.
Vicki
Scrub Nurse
What a fantastic job you guys have done and so much time and energy I can’t thank you enough.
Rhys
Sustainability Officer
Knowing that our plastics are being recycled is a peace of mind for us. Participating in this program is essential to help solve the issue of plastics contaminating the environment and being a hazard to our wildlife.
Peter
Executive Assistant
What a fantastic initiative you guys have brought to the world.
Pam Shoemaker
Communications Professor
When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.
John Lair
President and CEO Momentum Recycling
Recycling is the easiest way to conserve our natural resources and protect the beautiful places we cherish. It also creates meaningful jobs and is great for the economy.
We are proud to work with
What you get as a WrapBack™ member
Sign up to become a member of Wrap Back™ today. Membership includes everything you need to get started:
- WrapBack™ Savings and Cost Calculator to determine if sterilisation wrap recycling makes good business sense for your hospital or health care facility
- A step by step WrapBack™ Blueprint to set up a recycling program with ease, confidence and management support
- Educational resources to engage, empower and motivate staff: including signage, posters and staff training checklist
- Access to Australian-based WrapBack™ collectors and recyclers helping to divert your sterilisation wrap from landfill and turn back into valuable products
Start the journey to recycling sterilisation wrap today
It’s time to say NO to sending a perfectly good resource to landfill and wasting money on landfill disposal
It’s time to say YES to sending your WrapBack™ for recycling.
P.S.
The time is now. Every day that passes, your health care facility is losing hundreds of dollars paying for sterilisation wrap to be sent to landfill (where it will sit for eternity) when it could be easily recycled. Together we can change this. Recycle your sterilisation wrap and protect patients and the planet.