Morning all,
Our estates team have found a surplus of old nitrile gloves leftover from Covid that need to be disposed of. They’re all well past their shelf-life and from a mix of suppliers.
Can anyone recommend a recycling scheme that may be willing to make a one-off collection of several thousand gloves?
Our teaching labs in the hospital take a lot of expired materials like this from the NHS for teaching purposes where there’s little to no risk of any contamination (it’s all dry lab/technique on mannequin work). Worth identifying if there’s a similar opportunity near you before you go the disposal route.
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Morning all,
Our estates team have found a surplus of old nitrile gloves leftover from Covid that need to be disposed of. They’re all well past their shelf-life and from a mix of suppliers.
Can anyone recommend a recycling scheme that may be willing to make a one-off collection of several thousand gloves?
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We recycle our nitrile gloves with Terracycle or Appleton Woods. There’s a one-off cost but they should be able to help
Hi James,
Refactory recycling.
I have done a site visit too.
My contact there is Rob Aitkin rob.aitkin@mygroupltd.com
Have you thought of repurposing the gloves using wasteless Bio https://wasteless.bio/en-gb/ ??
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Lisa
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I would also advice to talk to your staff running practical classes. This is what I would do at Manchester. It may not be OK for all classes, but should be OK for most.