Environment

At UFS we appreciate that it's the small things we do that contribute to the overall reduction of our environmental impact. These steps include: 

• The installation of solar panels on all ten UFS owned buildings, including Central Office, Doveton Street Medical and our pharmacies at Ballan, Beaufort, Bridge Mall, Buninyong,  Sturt Street and Wendouree.
• The use of sustainable cleaning products are used at all sites. These are purchased in concentrated form and diluted onsite, to reduce the amount of unnecessary packaging used.
• The installation of environmentally sustainable LED lights at twenty of our sites.
• All sites are collection points for Zoos Victoria’s “They’re Calling on You” campaign to collect old mobile phones to help save gorillas in Africa.
• We offer safe disposal of unwanted/expired medicines for free in order to reduce our impact on the environment.
• We phased out single use plastic bags in all our stores prior to this being mandated and our paper bags are now printed on sustainably sourced paper, with water based inks.
• Unfortunately the free blister pack recycling service being provided in our pharmacies had to be suspended in July, 2024, while we work through possible options to potentially reintroduce this service in the future.