Unwanted medicines

Medicines and health

You can take unused medicines, prescription or otherwise, and empty inhalers back to your local pharmacy, like Boots. Incidentally this applies to all unused medicines, including tablets or liquids. Do not be tempted to flush them down the loo!

Your local chemist, including all Boots pharmacies, are obliged to accept back unwanted medicines from patients.

If you have empty blister packs that contained medical tablets, these can be recycled in your blue top kerbside bin in the same way as all foil containers. Please do check the blister packs are empty.

Boots also take and recycle contact lenses.

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Cans, tins & packs

All of the following can be recycled in your blue topped kerbside recycling bin.

Aerosol cans – Deodorants, hair spray and air fresheners

• Biscuit tins – Metal and plastic biscuit tins and lids

• Blister packs – Plastic blister packs. Remember to check all the tablets are removed

• Cartons (including Tetra Pak cartons) – Fruit juice, long life milk, soup and smoothie cartons

• Envelopes – We can recycle window envelopes

• Plastic cups – If you do buy a takeaway coffee, remember that your plastic cup and the lid can be recycled in your blue top recycling bin

• Plastic bottles – Remove tops first, then recycle

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The exception to this list is the Jiffy bag. Please place any Jiffy bags in the rubbish bin please, or reuse.

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