Dr Guy Barwell & Dr Bill Schaeffer of Dental Practice of the Year The Implant Centre, Hove & Haywards Heath are set to launch a green initiative to hundreds of dental practices across the South East.
In the UK, the NHS dentists performs 83 million procedures a year, if you double that to include private practices, then that’s 166 million procedures. Each procedure would have a plastic cup for the patient to rinse with which is then binned causing huge amounts of plastic waste!
The Implant Centre have a target in the practice to reduce their landfill waste by 50% and have also been looking at ways they can do the same for their clinical waste.
Over the last 12 months, The Implant Centre have abolished the use of plastic cups altogether and use just one paper cup per surgical patient.
In the next two weeks, The Implant Centre team will take to their bikes and deliver over half a million compostable paper cups to dental practices across the South East in a bid to encourage other dental practices to cut down on their own use of plastic. They will also include information on where to purchase compostable cups and what effect their contribution will make to the planet.