Green Europe

When purchasing furniture or equipment, we give preference to European, and if possible Belgian, suppliers rather than suppliers from the Asian market.

The Pharmacy and the maternity ward have selected a "baby" set of organic products.

This new certified organic range is fragrance-free and vegan. These natural care products, based on organic olive oil from Nîmes, tested for high tolerance and designed to minimise their impact on the environment, can be used from birth and by the whole family.

The hospital uses Sure (Ecolabel) cleaning products from Diversy and disinfectants from Ecolab, which follows sustainability objectives and has obtained numerous labels.

The Europe Hospitals have to two Belinbox distributors: healthy, 100% local breaks (Belgian producers).

Our non-profit organisation Cosiness (Red Corner, Ovalis, Europalis and Mezzanina shops) focuses on selling local products (from Belgian companies).

The Green Europe Committee has invited employees to take part in an initial eco-responsibility survey at the end of November 2022. The aim of the survey is to raise awareness of this issue.

We chose Owa as our (multi-brand) ink cartridge supplier, which organises the free collection of used cartridges and remanufactures them.

Once sorted by chemical family, all batteries are recycled. 
The metals and other components are recovered for reuse as raw materials in industry. 

The Europe Hospitals are working with VinylPlus® on a new project to recycle discarded single-use PVC medical devices. Many of these devices, used only once and for a short time on non-infectious patients, can be recycled.

In response to a great demand from associations, schools and recently from starters, Hu-Bu has developed a "supply and demand" platform through which associations can search and companies can offer used office equipment in excellent condition.

The Europe Hospitals donate their used IT equipment to Out of Use, an environmental company specialised in the reuse and recycling of products and devices.

Our supplier Hospidex has developed a new generation of needle containers. These are made from recycled materials (> 60% reduction in ecological footprint).

We installed water fountains connected to mains water throughout the institution. We also distributed reusable water bottles.

ISS, our cleaning service provider, pays attention to the environment by using

• an automatic dispenser for cleaning products (consumption limited to the right amount)
• microfibre cloths (limited water consumption due to high absorbency)
• refills of cleaning products (less packaging)
• Ecolabel cleaning products

We installed solar panels. We did this in collaboration with "Sun For Schools" (social and educational role in enabling schools to install solar panels).

We have installed a cogeneration system to produce our electricity locally. 

By recovering heat and hot vapours, this method is more environmentally friendly than buying from energy suppliers. 

Insulation of our buildings and replacement of double-glazed windows with the latest generation windows.

The Europe Hospitals ran a campaign called "Switch Off" to combat energy waste within the hospital.

As part of the "Switch Off" campaign, various stickers have also been put up around the hospital.
These stickers set out good practices for limiting our energy consumption.

The Europe Hospitals are taking part in the Switches Down - Brussels Up campaign in order to commit to a less energy-intensive, but still dynamic Brussels!

More info:

 https://brusselsup.brussels/fr#other-actions

We have a green wall in our entrance, with this eye-catcher we show our patients that we want to be a green hospital.

To reinforce our commitment to biodiversity, we have installed an insect hotel at the entrance to the St-Elisabeth site. This hotel is safe for our visitors because wild bees do not have stingers. This project was made possible by BeeOdiversity and the Belgian artist Bernard Cwiek.

We inaugurated the Paediatric ward on the St-Elisabeth site, renovated with new paintings of endangered animals.

Thanks to the artist Natacha de Baré (www.homeincolor.be) and to Mustela Belgium, Bioviva and Renewi.

To mark their commitment to the environment, the Europe Hospitals and the Clinique Saint-Pierre Ottignies, members of the H.Uni network, symbolically planted a tree in their respective institutions. We would like to thank Daniel Hublet, alderman for health in the municipality of Uccle, for coming, as well as the management and our Green Europe committee.

At each site, 2 cycle parks are available for employees.

We provide our patients and employees with parking spaces with electric charging stations.

Would you like to help improve the cycling infrastructure at Cliniques de l'Europe? Would you like to have your say as a cyclist?
Join the Bike Team by sending your details to biketeam@cdle.be

Home Dialysis (Home Dialyse) now travels by 100% electric car!

The Europe Hospitals participated in the great SquadEasy challenge. The aim of this challenge was to compete with different teams within our hospital to raise awareness about ecology and sport. This included quizzes on ecological issues.

Thanks to our sponsors: TraKKs, Teatower, VinylPlus Med and the Roots shop where we bought our fruit baskets.

The Europe Hospitals are offering attractive prices for the purchase of a bicycle of the Belgian brand Minerva for their staff members.

The "first 1000 days" are the period from the beginning of pregnancy to the child's second birthday. Numerous studies have shown that a baby's body is particularly sensitive to its surroundings during this period.

Find out how the Maternity unit contributes to a healthy and safe start in life for newborns:

• Longer-lasting nappies containing fewer harmful products
• The end of the pink box in favour of organic products on demand
• The use of eco-labelled cleaning products
• Choosing a Belgian organic breastfeeding tea
• Replacing products containing endocrine disruptors 
• Optimisation of bed linen per stay
• The use of soap and water for cord care
• Reuse of monitoring belts
• Reduction of plastic protectors
• Digitalisation of CTG monitoring results (stop printing)

As mentioned in the various sustainable labels obtained, the Europe Hospitals are proud to announce that its laboratory has obtained the "Green Labs" label, thanks to the sustainable initiatives taken within it.