The improvements reflect improved segregation and recycling practices
CVS Group Halves The Amount Of Waste Going To Landfill
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- CVS Care Plan 2025 reports on the group’s environmental progress -
- Report shows increase in non-medical waste recycled and a reduction in medical waste -
A halving of waste sent to landfill and a big increase in waste that is being recycled are the highlights of the CVS Care Plan (the group’s Sustainability Report) for 2025.
The improvements reflect improved segregation and recycling practices that are being led by CVS’ network of Environment Champions across practices, hospitals and other sites.
From July 2024 to June 2025, CVS Group achieved the following results:
- 53.5% reduction in waste sent to landfill, against a target of 10% reduction.
- 39.0% of non-medical waste recycled, against last year’s 34.9% and target for this year of 38%.
These improvements are a result of CVS Group’s Reduce, Recycle, Reuse waste strategy:
- Reduce – for example CVS has reduced packaging on some of our own-label medicines such as removing the outer packaging from Endectrid.
- Recycle – for example launching zero waste boxes for harder to recycle items such as soft plastics.
- Reuse – for example reusable sharps have been introduced at UK practices over the last year. The move will save 21,000 single-use sharps bins from being incinerated a year.
Rosie Naylor, CVS Group Procurement Director and Sustainability Lead, said: “Every veterinary practice has access to step-by-step waste disposal guidance, and many have Environment Champions steering the effort at ground level. This is leading to less waste going to landfill and more being recycled.”
Looking ahead, CVS Group aims to reduce waste sent to landfill by an additional 10% and increase non-medical waste recycling to 41% in the coming year.
CVS Group operates over 500 veterinary practices and referral centres across the UK and Australia, spanning small animal, farm animal, equine and laboratory, services.
For more information, visit CVS Group Sustainability.
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