Compliant clinical waste collection for Leicester clinics, pharmacies, care homes and labs, with compliant treatment routes and complete Duty of Care records.
Licensed clinical waste collection for businesses, with full Duty of Care paperwork on every collection.
Leicester runs one of the busiest acute hospital systems in England. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust operates three main sites: Leicester Royal Infirmary, home to the city's emergency department, Glenfield Hospital, known for heart and respiratory care, and Leicester General Hospital, which hosts renal, maternity and diabetes services.
The wider health network is planned by NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board. Alongside the hospitals sit hundreds of businesses that support them. The University of Leicester trains doctors through Leicester Medical School, De Montfort University teaches pharmacy, and the Leicester Diabetes Centre runs research and education from the General Hospital site.
For businesses, that creates steady demand for clinical waste services. Community pharmacies serve every district of the city. GP practices, dental surgeries, care homes and private clinics produce sharps, medicines and infectious waste every day. Each producer is responsible for that waste until it reaches licensed treatment.
Leicester organisations are responsible for keeping segregation tight at source using HTM 07-01 colour codes. Clean segregation keeps treatment routes correct and avoids rejected loads. Every collection comes with the consignment notes and transfer records that prove your Duty of Care, ready for a CQC visit or internal audit.
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.
From independent chemists to multi-site care groups, Leicester's clinical waste producers share one need: compliant collection with clear records.
Pharmacies in Leicester's district centres, from Belgrave to Aylestone, take back unwanted medicines and sharps from patients. We collect from your blue and purple lidded containers and record each collection so pharmacy waste audits stay simple.
Primary care across the city, from Evington to Beaumont Leys, produces infectious waste, sharps, amalgam and offensive hygiene waste. We set a collection pattern for each surgery that fits your storage space.
Care and nursing homes in Oadby, Wigston and the county towns manage dressings, continence waste and residents' unwanted medicines. HTM 07-01 colour codes are designed to make the right choice obvious for care staff on every shift.
Research groups linked to the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and the hospital sites generate laboratory waste and contaminated sharps. We agree waste codes with your lab manager and match each stream to a compliant treatment route.
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 cover the LE postcode area, serving the city and the surrounding Leicestershire towns, including:
Not listed? We work right across the East Midlands, so call 0800 804 8612 to check your postcode.
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If your Leicester business produces healthcare waste, it needs a licensed collection. That covers pharmacies, GP and dental practices, care homes, private clinics, vets, podiatrists, tattoo studios and research labs. The rules apply whatever your size, so a single treatment room in Clarendon Park has the same Duty of Care as a large care group.
HTM 07-01 links each container colour to a treatment route. Yellow means infectious waste for incineration. Orange means infectious waste that can be treated by other methods. Yellow and black is offensive waste. Purple is cytotoxic and cytostatic medicine, blue is other medicines, red is anatomical waste and white is dental amalgam. Using the right colour keeps your waste on the correct route.
Hold on to hazardous waste consignment notes for a minimum of three years, and transfer notes for at least two. These records show your Duty of Care from your premises to treatment. We issue the correct notes at every Leicester collection, so your files are complete when a CQC inspector or auditor asks to see them.
Yes. Community pharmacies across Leicester accept unwanted medicines from patients, and that waste must be stored and collected correctly. We collect from your blue containers for general medicines, purple containers for cytotoxic and cytostatic items and sharps bins on a regular schedule, with full consignment paperwork.
Collection frequency is agreed with you based on how much you produce and how much secure storage you have. Before we start, you need your own HTM 07-01 colour-coded containers, correctly labelled for each stream, and a secure storage area. We provide licensed collection and the consignment notes and Duty of Care records for every visit. If your volumes rise or fall, we review the schedule with you.
No. We only provide clinical waste collections to businesses and organisations. If you live in Leicester and need sharps or other clinical waste collected from your home, contact Leicester City Council, which runs household clinical waste collections. Your GP or pharmacist can also advise.
Get compliant clinical waste collection for your Leicester pharmacy, surgery, care home or lab. Call 0800 804 8612 to set up your service.
