if i can do it, i m just one old geezer in okehampton, sleepy little okehampton why cant the nationalthem? there has to be a policy in place to say, "do this." last year, the health secretary urged nhs staff to recycle equipment. but the onus is on individual hospitals to set up their own scheme. and in one part of the country, terry s prayers have been answered. so, mark, what happens here? this is our decontamination holding area. all the equipment that you see here has been collected yesterday and is now waiting to go into the first stage of cleaning into what we call the red side. so this is all kit people have used but they no longer need. this service was set up six years ago by the nhs in barnsley. there is so much equipment here, what is this part? this is the end product this is equipment that has been recycled and is now obviously been put back in use for the community again. so this is all waiting to be collected for the next delivery. so how much money do you save doing what you do? in the last financial year we collected 111,000 equipment items. of those 111,000 items 94%