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CircuBack - Blister Pack Recycling

Help patients recycle responsibly. Offer empty blister packaging recycling at your site of care, a meaningful contribution to the U.K.’s circular economy.
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  • Pharmacies
Available in
  • U.K.
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  • Pharmacy solutions
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Blister Pack recycling Initiative

This initiative makes it easier for healthcare providers to help patients recycle responsibly by collecting empty blister packaging and contributing meaningfully to the U.K.’s circular economy.

In the UK., blister packaging are generally not accepted in household recycling because they combine plastic and aluminium foil making separation difficult through conventional system. As a result, most end up in landfill or incineration, wasting resources and contributing to avoidable emissions.

Circuback recycling

What is CircuBack Blister Pack Recycling?

Circuback recycling

A comprehensive blister recycling initiative for all empty blister packs designed to:

  • Enable empty blister pack recycling: Enable patients to return empty blister packs at local pharmacies and dispensing sites for safe, compliant recycling. The programme accepts all empty plastic-and-foil blister packaging, provided medication has been removed.
  • Provide convenient recycling access: Make recycling accessible and straightforward for pharmacies, dispensaries, and patients by using local collection points and managed specialist pick-up.
  • Impact: Reduce pharmaceutical packaging waste and demonstrate environmental responsibility to patients and stakeholders through a compliant, end-to-end blister pack recycling process.
Circuback recycling

The CircuBack Blister Pack Recycling Process

1.

Complete the Blister registration form.

2.

Receive Welcome Pack from Alliance Healthcare.
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3.

Set up the Blister Pack Recycling Box in the dispensary.
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4.

Put the poster up in the dispensary.

5.

Tell your patients about CircuBack Blister Pack Recycling.

6.

Encourage patients to return empty blister packs to your dispensary.
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7.

Collect returned empty blister packs in the Circuback box which is lines with a clear recycling bag.
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8.

When the blister recycling box is full book a collection with Alliance Healthcare on https://my.alliance-healthcare.co.uk/ then click on the recycling collection request. Attach the relevant paperwork to the clear bag.

9.

Alliance Healthcare will collect your clear recycling bags. You keep the box and put in a new clear bag to keep collecting.
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10.

The plastic and aluminium components are recycled.
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11.

To order more clear recycling bags contact blisterrecycling@skills-in-healthcare.co.uk

Why participate?

  • Sustainability leadership: Join a growing movement to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint.
  • Convenience for patients: Offer your customers an easy way to recycle their empty blister packs responsibly.
  • Support Materials: Support materials provided to help support conversations with patients on the initiative
  • No additional costs: The programme is free to participate in, with logistics managed by the CircuBack Blister Pack Team.
Close-up of a female pharmacy employee handing a medication to a customer across the counter.

How can your pharmacy/dispensary participate in CircuBack - Blister Pack Recycling?

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Your pharmacy or dispensary plays a vital role in the recycling effort, and joining the scheme won’t cost you anything, To become part of the Circuback Blister Pack recycling initiative and support sustainable healthcare, select the appropriate registration form based on your home service centre: Chessington ,  Coatbridge , Croydon , Exeter ,  Leeds , Letchworth ,  Preston , Swansea  and send it back to blisterrecyling@skills-in-healthcare.co.uk. Alternatively, you can contact us using the form below.
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Connect with our CircuBack team

Contact us to get connected with a team member who can help decide if CircuBack is the right fit for you.

This is a Circularity in Primary Pharmaceutical Packaging Accelerator (CiPPPA) initiative, managed by TDi Sustainability. While CiPPPA is supported by its general membership, the CircuBack project is specifically funded by a subset of these members, which are/include pharmaceutical companies. These companies have contributed financially to CircuBack and have been involved in decisions on how the project funds are used. For full transparency, a separate list of these members and their logos is available here: www.circuback.co.uk/members .

TDi Sustainability: Assheton Carter Limited trading as TDi Sustainability