Consumer healthcare products sponsors and manufacturers are taking voluntary collective action through CHP Australia to make blister pack recycling more accessible. This subsidised, reply-paid satchel gives households a practical way to recycle empty medicine blister packs from home and complements Pharmacycle’s free participating drop-off network.
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Blister packs play an important role in protecting medicines, but their combination of plastic and aluminium makes them difficult to recycle through household recycling systems. Dedicated recycling pathways are needed to recover these materials, but convenient access is not available to every Australian.
Consumer healthcare products sponsors and manufacturers have come together to make blister pack recycling more accessible, supporting a new reply-paid satchel that lets Australians recycle their empty blister packs from home.
Click on the logos to learn more about each participating organisation.
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The Recycle at Home Satchel is a convenient, reply-paid option for recycling empty medicine blister packs from home, wherever you live. Fill the satchel, post it back, and Pharmacycle will take care of the rest.
Get your satchelYou can also take your empty blister packs to a participating pharmacy near your. Use Pharmacycle's drop-off locator to find a pharmacy near you.
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Empty medicine blister packs, from any brand.
Please don’t include medicines or other packaging.
Empty blister packs are collected through participating pharmacy drop-off points or returned using the Recycle at Home Satchel.
The plastic and aluminium layers are separated so the different materials can be recovered for recycling.
The recovered materials are recycled and used again, helping keep blister packs out of landfill.
Choose the recycling option that works best for you.