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
Attention hospitals and health care facilities!
Hospitals send thousands of kilograms of sterilisation wrap to landfill every single year.
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
Register for free today!
How it works
WrapBack™ Blueprint
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The WrapBack™ Blueprint
Step by step instructions
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
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
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?
Why listen to us?
Samantha Cross, Founder of the Wrapback Program, passed the baton to the team at Valera Recycling. Valera has helped hundreds of organisations reduce their waste to landfill, improve their recycling, and participate in the circular economy. It all started with a passion for doing one thing: helping businesses and the wider community reduce waste, and the good work continues. You’re in good hands.
What a fantastic job you guys have done and so much time and energy I can’t thank you enough.
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.
What a fantastic initiative you guys have brought to the world.
When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.
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.
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What you get as a WrapBack™ member
- 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 YES to sending your WrapBack™ for recycling.