🌎👀 2022: The year of giving back.  Through Green Volunteering, donating our coats to people without homes, keeping our sites tidy, swapping our unwanted food, and pledging our Sustainable Goals through PDRs.  What have we got planned for 2023?  Stay tuned to find out...👀🌎

🌎💧Wat-er great idea! Patient safety, saving staff time, plastic reduction, and heatwave preparedness all in one neat little bag! Aiding our patients to self-manage their hydration needs, The Waterdrop reduces plastic use by 80% when compared to a hydration IV. #WaterWinner💧🌎

Revolution-ZERO are seeking individuals to work with us to operate a state of the art cleanroom facility in Truro, Cornwall to service the medical textile (surgical drapes and gowns) needs of local NHS operating theatres. Please share: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3442… #GreenNHS 🙏🌍⚕️

🌎🏋️Let’s get physical, physical! Check out our brand spanking new exercise equipment Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust! Donated by RCHTCharity to the RCHT Wellbeing team. Get some fresh air AND get your steps in, you could even have an active meeting here!🏋️🌎

🌎🚰How gutterly delightful! Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust we are taking responsibility for our waste pharmaceuticals by adding this message to all our TTO’s. Shouldn’t we all be reminding our patients that medications sent down the drains at home all lead to our oceans?🚰🌎 #NHSOceans

🌎🙋Last year you met some of our Green Representatives Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Now, we’re catching up with them to find out how they’ve been getting on, and what they’d like to achieve in the long run! Starting up is Lizzie one our F1 Doctors! 🙋🌎

🌎🙋Meet the Green Rep episode 2! Tonight is Charlotte who has been making huge waves in our canteen with single use cups and her mission to reduce our usage by 100,000 a year!🙋🙋

🌎🙋Meet the Green Rep episode 3! Next up we have the lovely Steve who is our amazing Head Gardener Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. Steve generously offers his own Green Volunteering sessions for our own staff to book onto and learn from!🙋🌎

🌎🙋Meet the Green Rep episode 4! Tonight’s rep is Lisa, our Dietetic Lead for both Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Lisa’s work in her field has been invaluable and we love her energy always! 🙋🌎

🌎🌊So thrilled to be a part of Emily at Beach Guardian’s PHD research looking at how bacteria in the environment attaches to microplastics. Emily has placed her structures at our Trust and will be checking on them each month to assess the changes! 🌊🌎 #WhatGoesIntoOurSeas?

🌍🔌Code blue! We’ve got a code blue! ……On our electric consumption! Our brand new smart sockets from measurable.energy learns user behaviour to cut down on electronic wastage, saving up to 40% on consumption! What a shock! 🔌🌍

🌎🥚This week is National Compost Week UK! By recycling organics into compost we create healthy soils that produce healthier food & higher yields. It reduces the need for pesticides, and conserves water, as well as stores carbon in soil - helping to reduce climate change🥚🌎

🌎♻️Happy Global Recycling Day! FAB RECYCLING FACTS: ♻️ The world’s most recycled item is the aluminium can ♻️ Glass can be recycled infinitely without losing quality ♻️ It can take 7 days for old magazines & papers to be recycled anew. For every ton 17trees are saved♻️🌎

🌎🪴It’s the first day of Spring today! Which means it’s time to start planting and preparing your quarterly seed batches! Peas take this perfect time to prep the seeds below ready to sprout a radishing summer harvest.🪴🌎

🌎🎊Electrified to be shortlisted for Digital HSJ not once, but twice! Cornwall continues to create our innovative new NHS: Implementing and Embedding Digital Healthcare on a Global Scale whilst reducing our carbon footprint See you in June Manchester! 🎊🌎 #HSJDigitalAwards

🌎🧥Reintroducing our Wall of Kindness! After receiving so many donations last year we are delighted to invite staff to donate their coats to people without homes 🧥🌎

🌎 🥳 3…2…1…Let’s start as we mean to go on! St Michaels Hospital, Hayle have signed a contract to use reusable textiles in Orthopaedic Theatres. That’s a HUGE carbon saving. Nationally & globally we’ve helped Revolution-ZERO make this change to help protect our planet 🥳

🖥️ Join us for a series of regional and national webinars to mark #GreenerNursesandMidwives Week! See all events 👇 future.nhs.uk/sustainability… Sign up for our national webinar 👇 events.england.nhs.uk/events/greener… teamCNO 💙 #GreenerNHS

Press Release: Revolution-ZERO attains certified B-Corp status 👇👇👇 We are forever thankful to our wonderful team and community. Please see the full release below. #GreenNHS #TogetherWeCan #SaveTheWorld 🙏🌍⚕️