Licensed clinical waste collection for Cardiff clinics, practices, labs and care providers, built around Welsh healthcare waste guidance and full Duty of Care documentation.
Licensed clinical waste collection for businesses, with full Duty of Care paperwork on every collection.
Cardiff is the centre of healthcare in south-east Wales. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board serves around 445,000 people across the city and the Vale of Glamorgan. Its estate includes the University Hospital of Wales at Heath Park, which has more than 1,000 beds, University Hospital Llandough in Penarth, Cardiff Royal Infirmary and the University Dental Hospital.
Around that estate sits a dense ring of private clinics, GP surgeries, dental practices and suppliers. Cardiff University trains doctors and dentists on the Heath Park campus, where the Cardiff Medicentre houses medtech and life science start-ups. Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch adds specialist oncology care to the north of the city.
Wales has its own guidance. The Welsh Health Technical Memorandum WHTM 07-01 sets out how healthcare waste should be segregated and managed in Wales, using the same colour-coded system as HTM 07-01. Hazardous loads still travel under consignment notes, and every producer keeps a Duty of Care until the waste reaches compliant treatment.
That matters in a city where a single building can hold a dental surgery, a physiotherapy clinic and an aesthetics room. Cardiff businesses must match each stream to the correct colour code at source, and we provide paperwork that stands up to an inspection by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales.
From sharps in a single treatment room to infectious, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical waste across a multi-site estate, every stream is collected compliantly and backed by the right paperwork.
One accountable partner for clinical, hazardous and specialist waste, backed by more than 25 years of regulated waste experience.
Collections for clinics, practices, care providers, labs and workplaces. We never collect from households.
Sharps, infectious, offensive, cytotoxic, pharmaceutical, anatomical, dental and laboratory waste, collected under one arrangement.
Hazardous waste consignment notes and Duty of Care records for every collection, ready for inspection.
Independently verified to meet high standards of social and environmental performance.
Tell us what you produce, how it is stored and where your sites are. We will confirm the right streams, collection routes and paperwork.
Clinical waste producers across Cardiff range from single-chair surgeries to multi-site groups. These are the sectors we support most often across the city and the Vale.
Cardiff's dental community grows up around the University Dental Hospital and the dental school at Heath Park. We collect sharps, amalgam, extracted teeth, X-ray fixer and developer, and infectious waste from surgeries in Roath, Canton and beyond.
Companies at the Cardiff Medicentre and Cardiff Edge life sciences park produce laboratory waste, cultures and contaminated plastics. We collect each stream under its correct waste code and provide the consignment notes that hazardous laboratory waste requires.
Residential and nursing homes from Llandaff to Penarth and Barry handle sharps, offensive hygiene waste and unwanted medicines every day. Care staff segregate into your own colour-coded containers, and we collect on a regular schedule with full records.
Cardiff city centre and Cardiff Bay have a busy aesthetics and body art scene. Botox and filler clinics, tattoo studios and piercers all produce sharps and contaminated waste that must be collected under licence and recorded properly.
A simple setup with compliance built in from the first collection.
Share your waste streams, rough volumes and site details so we can match each stream to the right collection and treatment route.
Keep each stream in its own compliant, correctly labelled container in a secure storage area, ready for collection.
Collections are planned around your site, access and volumes, from a single practice to a multi-site estate.
Every collection comes with a hazardous waste consignment note and the records you need to show Duty of Care.
We collect from businesses throughout the CF postcode area, covering the capital and the Vale of Glamorgan, including:
Based in a nearby town such as Caerphilly or Pontypridd? Call us on 0800 804 8612 and we will confirm your collection options.
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Decades of hands-on waste management expertise across regulated services.
A named account manager and direct access to real experts, with no call centres.
Services designed around UK regulations, documentation, and Duty of Care.
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Any Cardiff organisation that produces sharps, infectious, offensive, medicinal or anatomical waste needs a licensed collection. That includes GP and dental surgeries near Heath Park, care homes in the Vale, pharmacies, physiotherapists, vets, laboratories and aesthetics clinics in the city centre. If waste leaves your premises, you must be able to show where it went.
Welsh producers follow WHTM 07-01, which uses the same colour codes as HTM 07-01. Yellow is for infectious waste needing incineration, orange for infectious waste suitable for alternative treatment, and yellow and black stripes for offensive hygiene waste. Purple lids are for cytotoxic medicines, blue for other medicines, red for anatomical waste and white for dental amalgam.
Each producer needs a waste transfer note for non-hazardous streams and a hazardous waste consignment note for clinical loads that are hazardous. Together they prove your Duty of Care. Keep consignment notes for at least three years. We supply the paperwork with every collection, so your records stay complete for any inspection.
Yes. Laboratory and research businesses around Heath Park, including tenants of the Cardiff Medicentre, can use our service for cultures, contaminated plastics, sharps and chemical-contaminated items. We agree the waste codes with you first, then confirm the treatment route for each stream.
Collections run on a regular schedule agreed with you, set by the volume you produce and how much storage space you have. You need your own compliant colour-coded containers that follow WHTM 07-01, correctly labelled, and a secure storage area. We provide licensed collection, consignment notes and full Duty of Care documentation. If your output changes, we adjust the schedule to suit.
No. This is a service for businesses and organisations only, including clinics, surgeries, labs and care providers. Cardiff residents who need sharps or other clinical waste collected from home should contact Cardiff Council, which arranges household clinical waste collections, or speak to their GP or pharmacist.
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