Superdrug are accepting empty tablet strip packs

We have been taking them for a while and I believe it’s only stores with an in store pharmacy who are able to take them. Save mine up for months until we visit a location with the relevant bin.

Only at the stores that are chemist counters too, we don't have that, so when I turned up with 2 carrier bags stuffed full, I was turned away and told the nearest was 10 miles away...Sadly they were binned as ten miles of diesel, outweighs the good of recycling. It isn't even a town I go to...ever Now if someone could recycle suppository packaging it would be worth the journey...

Bazza

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

me too. I put them in my metal and plastics recycle bin at home.

I have just Googled and some councils make a point of collecting it and scrunching it together. Perhaps the problem is the small amounts.

I had been saving these for quite a while and then discovered that I’d have to make a special journey at least 25 miles away to drop them off. There are quite a number of stores very local to me and I can’t understand why all Superdrug stores can’t accept them. Unfortunately, I eventually decided I would have to bin the lot.

Have just looked this up on our council’s recycling website. (It’s very good, you can check anything to see which bin it should go in).

It says that blister packs for medication should go in the black (general waste) bin. They are a combination of plastic and metal, not easy to separate and recycle.

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Just to update those with access to a Superdrug branch with a pharmacy: all empty foil tablet packs are still being happily accepted. We took a large bag full to our nearest one in Torquay yesterday.

What do they do with them?

BlueBelle

What do they do with them?

They contact Terracycle, who come to collect them. they send them to get the foil and the plastic separated and recycled.

Chardy

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

I think you are mistaken (Chardy Sun 24-Jul-22 12:23:21). The Terracycle scheme takes ANY empty foil blisterpack, prescription or over-the-counter, medication or vitamin or painkiller. zerowastebag.co.uk/blogs/what-we-recycle/empty-medicine-blister-packs

I have bought one of their Zero Waste bags, originally for the carrier bag of blister packs that had been hanging around my kitchen for ages. Then I took it to my Community Centre, where it is now almost full and ready to be taken to the InPost Locker in Tescos. There, the barcode that I downloaded onto my phone will be scanned to verify it, and it will be picked up and delivered.

As well as the paid-for bags for some recycling, there are also lot of free schemes for individual hard-to-get-recycled items, sponsored by brands.

A relevant question - did anyone else see the documentary that Gabrielle56 posted on Sun 24-Jul-22 12:08:39 about Terracycle not honouring their intention to recycle what was sent to them? I have heard nothing of this.

I too think you are mistaken. We put all blister packs from Gaviscon to bp meds in a bag and drop it off when we are near the shop.

Superdrug’s website is a bit vague on whether they’ll take all blister packs.
www.superdrug.com/dgfs/waste-recycling/Medicine-Recycling

Our local shop is not at all vague.

BeverleyJB has started a new thread at www.gransnet.com/forums/health/1329596-Recycling-blisterpacks which says :-

^"I know that many places have stopped offering a facility to recycle blister packs, so thought this might be useful.
It is necessary to register with Terracycle first but otherwise all that’s required is an envelope of the correct size….
www.gransnet.com/forums/health/1329596-Recycling-blisterpacks "^

The FREE blister pack recycling program is backed by Aldi. You have to join Terracycle (free) to use it, but you get up to two prepaid labels a month to stick on your own envelopes, each of which can contain up to 30 blister packs, so you can send up to 60 packs a month.

It says clearly in the joining link at www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/aldi-uk "Download a free shipping label to recycle all brands of empty medicine blister packs."

I just talk mine to my local chemist and she puts them into a bin

Chardy

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

My local Superdrug takes all blister packs.

There is also this recycling scheme which I have used a lot; they literally take any shoes, however battered!

www.clarks.com/en-gb/sustainability/shoeshare

All Rymans shops recycle bits of pens, and electrical equipment.

This thread was started in 2022 so things may have changed by now, and anyway it is only Superdrugs with pharmacy counters who then accepted blister packs.

None of the pharmacies in my area take them any more Boots told me they put them straight in the bin and Superdrug wouldn’t take them they said the man no longer called to get them so mine are back to gong in the bin

Elegran

This thread was started in 2022 so things may have changed by now, and anyway it is only Superdrugs with pharmacy counters who then accepted blister packs.

My local Superdrug takes used blister packs and has no pharmacy. Took a load in last week.

Strange how different branches have different rules my local Superdrug does have a pharmacy but doesn’t take the blister strips 🤷🏼‍♂️