Episode 66 - Misclassified, Misunderstood and Massive: What Clinical Waste Reveals About Our Systems with Rufus Henderson from NuGreen copertina

Episode 66 - Misclassified, Misunderstood and Massive: What Clinical Waste Reveals About Our Systems with Rufus Henderson from NuGreen

Episode 66 - Misclassified, Misunderstood and Massive: What Clinical Waste Reveals About Our Systems with Rufus Henderson from NuGreen

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What if a big part of climate action in healthcare starts with putting things in the right bin?

On Earth Your While, Jack and Ellie talk to Rufus Henderson, Sustainability Director at NuGreen, a B Corp‑certified consultancy born out of NHS waste research.

In this episode, Rufus explains how NuGreen is helping hospitals, GP practices, schools and SMEs cut carbon and costs through better waste segregation, and how an Innovate UK project with Leeds Beckett University is transforming treated clinical waste into a low‑carbon construction material that could replace mined sand.

Topics covered include:

  • How NuGreen grew from an NHS research project
  • The process and promise of turning treated clinical waste into a sand‑like aggregate
  • Why so much “infectious” clinical waste isn’t actually infectious
  • What really happens to household recycling once it leaves your bin
  • Behaviour, bin design and small nudges that change how people sort waste
  • A realistic 10‑year vision for circular healthcare waste

Music by Stock_Studio from Pixabay.

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