Capital Hygiene Services Limited recognises that it has a duty of care for the protection of the environment and will seek to continuously improve its environmental performance by:

• Reducing the environmental effect of its activities to a minimum, by the prevention of pollution, noise, reduction of waste and efficient use of resources
• Continually developing a sense of environmental responsibility amongst its employees and contractors
• Ensuring that trade waste is appropriately stored and disposed of correctly
• Developing incident and complaint procedures.
  Where contamination occurs, this knowledge will be shared with the appropriate authorities and appropriate management strategies agreed.

Capital Hygiene will endeavour to manage its environmental responsibilities within its normal business processes by:

• Fulfilling its duty of care to protect the environment by compliance with relevant legislation
• Undertaking an environmental impact assessment of work to be undertaken
• Defining organisational responsibilities for protection of the environment
• Implementing appropriate environmental control measures
• Providing environmental awareness training to employees
• Monitoring, auditing and reviewing environmental performance

Waste Management

Feminine Hygiene waste is categorised as Controlled Waste under the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992. The Environmental Protection Act 1990 states that producers/holders of waste have a Duty of Care to ensure that their waste is transferred using a Controlled Waste Transfer Note, which must describe the waste.

The waste must be transferred to an authorised waste carrier and to an authorised transfer/disposal site. Capital Hygiene meets these requirements as an authorised waste carrier, and by using an authorised waste transfer/disposal station.

Capital Hygiene Services disposes of all hygiene/clinical waste using the very latest technology by incineration. The benefits are no pollutants, contaminants to sewers, air or water.

Capital Hygiene track all waste from the point of collection to the point of disposal by incineration.

Capital Hygiene Services only use the Companies own vehicles, specifically racked to carry hygiene and clinical waste.

All waste is secured in yellow sacks, in a separate compartment within the service vehicle; this will prevent cross contamination and waste escaping.

Capital Hygiene are a registered Waste Carriers, licence number TNE/377511/CB issued by E A Thames Region – North East Area

Capital Hygiene use an authorised disposer, licence number: WML80576