00:00Meet Sunny. He's found himself in the trusted hands of Gippsland wildlife carer Sue Moore
00:10after his mother was injured in the wild.
00:13I've had 80 koalas come in in 12 months and approximately about 350 animals come through the shelter as well.
00:22It's a round-the-clock job for Sue who's had a lot of mouths to feed over her 20 years as a carer.
00:29But it's been made easier with the help of donations of old medical equipment, including swabs, bandages and a humidity crib.
00:38I had a big koala that lost its temperature, so we were able to put it into the humidity crib and brought back that temperature back up.
00:46And then if I have young babies, like furless babies, I can put them in there and it keeps that temperature.
00:52It was out-of-date equipment destined for landfill, a waste recognised by a charity called Medical Pantry.
01:00We sit in between donors who have too many medical supplies and then recipients who are in desperate need of medical supplies.
01:08As well as helping animals like these koalas here, the reuse of medical equipment is also helping the environment.
01:15The healthcare system is the second largest contributor to the nation's landfill, accounting for 7% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
01:24So at the moment we're only saving about 5% of what is actually going to landfill that can be redistributed and we want to be able to do that better.
01:33Sue is hopeful Sunny will continue to build up his strength and eventually be released back into the wild.
01:40When you open it up and then climbing up the trees, it's a reward really because that's what you've done, you've saved it.
01:46Saving lives and the environment.
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