Superdrug are accepting empty tablet strip packs

Useful to know. Thank you for posting the information.

? Thanks.

Sadly not my store.

That's brilliant . I will check my nearest store, 5 miles away.

I saw that a while ago and dutifully saved up a month's worth of foil strips. DH took them to our local Superdrug, but they don't subscribe to the scheme. Shame.

No longer accepted at my local Superdrug.

We’re lucky, our village post office store takes them.

Thanks for the tip! Thanks to my back medication and dh pills I throw an awful lot of them out, I’ll have to keep a little box aside to keep them in.

Great to know! I saw just before CoVid that a pharmacy in town was accepting them, and started putting them into a small poly bag to take in. I haven't been near that pharmacy since, so I now have a carrier bag full! I must check with my local Superdrug.

Ours has been doing it for a while - hope they still do.

They have been doing it for quite some time but it is only the stores that have a pharmacy in them

Our village has a monthly Repair Shop where folk can take their broken items to be repaired. They've also started to collect empty tablet strips (and other items such as old make-up, empty tootpaste tubes etc) to take for recycling. I always have a full supermarket bag to take.

I saved a dustbin bag full of them, then phoned my local store to find they weren't collecting any more. Gutted. In the end, sent them with recycling in the hope that they might know of somewhere to send them. Such a shame.

Brilliant. I will look up my nearest store to see if they are. If they are I will save mine until I am in that area ?

Gymstagran

They have been doing it for quite some time but it is only the stores that have a pharmacy in them

That sounds right Gymstagran. Now I have checked, the one in our small town isn't doing it and doesn't have a pharmacy. I wonder how many do. The bigger town near us (big enough to sport a Betty's Tea Room) doesn't have a pharmacy either, as far as I can see.

I might put a call out on our latest FB page as it does seem such a good idea.

I watched a documentary about Terra cycle not doing what they should with waste that they're paid an obscene amount of money to "recycle" try and find on the web , half of what they claim they're doing is literally " rubbish" !!!

www.superdrug.com/dgfs/waste-recycling
It's only for certain over-the-counter meds
Anadin, Panadol, Nexium, Piriteze, Rennie, Nicorette, Imodium, Sudafed & Benadryl

This is old news. My local branch were. collecting them up until 18 months ago but had to stop as they were getting overwhelmed with them as they had to wait for the collecting bins to be collected.

Our local church collects them and superdrug collect from them. They do not saythere are any limitations on the types of pack.

I can fill a carrier bag per week with the blister packs of medication keeping us alive - two pensioners and an elderly dog with a heart condition (thank God for the NHS - only have to pay for the dog’s meds!)

Google “Is recycling a waste of time?” and get your answer to this. I’m not a Guardian reader but this is one of hundreds of articles. Recycling plastic basically makes YOU feel better but produces more pollution in doing so than making it from new. The only way to help the environment is to NOT use it in the first place! www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish

I thought they were recyclable anyway as aluminium, I’ve been putting mine into our recycle bin for years!

I've been collecting the all-aluminium ones and passing them on to my sister, who takes them to recycling.

Does this thread mean the part-aluminium ones can be recycled?

Our village has been collecting them for ages!