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Laboratory BEST Team have Animal Welfare Wrapped

Next time you check your team’s first aid box, instead of throwing the out of date bandages away, why not donate them to a local animal charity or vet?

Birmingham City Laboratories, part of the Chief Executive’s Directorate based at Phoenix House, Garretts Green, came up with this environmentally friendly action as part of their recent BEST workshop.

The team, led through BEST by Peter Brett, check their first aid boxes annually for out-of-date items. In the past, any out-of-date sterile bandages would have been thrown away, but team member, Dawn Ketteridge, came up with an excellent suggestion of how to reuse them! The team contacted the local vets who were more than happy to take them to use on their injured animals. The vets also recommended that animal charities such as the PDSA and RSPCA could benefit from them too.

What a fantastic outcome! Not only as a council can we recycle the bandages, promoting the organisation’s sustainability objective, but local vets and charities can make good use of them to treat the A & E animal residents of Birmingham when they are most in need!

Thank you and well done to Birmingham City Laboratories for their innovative action!

Has your team had an excellent idea like this one? Please contact your local Directorate Support team so that we can share it with other BEST teams throughout the council.