Posted 2 November 2023

Recycle Your Pill Blisters Packs

Now you can register to recycle your pill blisters via the post you can send 2 lots of 30 a month.

You can only send them in a A4 envelope

See more about this freebie at Terracycle

How it works
Aldi has partnered with TerraCycle so households and individuals can recycle all brands of empty medicine blister packs for free. Simply follow the steps below to send in your empty blister packs in an envelope, and we’ll recycle them!

Create a TerraCycle account - if you don’t already have one - and select from the drop-down list either the household or individual option depending on which one you are.
Join the Aldi Blister Pack Envelope Recycling Programme.
Download your prepaid shipping label (2 labels per TerraCycle account per month maximum).
Once you have downloaded and printed your shipping label, stick it on an envelope you have at home (maximum size of envelopes: C4 = 324mm x 229mm).
Fill your envelope with a maximum of 30 medicine blister packs.
Place your full envelope in a Royal Mail postbox to send it to TerraCycle for recycling.That means you can send us up to 60 empty medicine blister packs every month!

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  1. Wongy111's avatar
    Thank you Fern
    funnily enough was wondering about this today
    fern37's avatar
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    It's something I have thought about. I know one of the big retailers like Boots or Superdrug did it but they had boxes in their stores. We didn't have that locally.

    It's Superdrug and only to the stores that have pharmacies in them.

    superdrug.com/dgf…ing

    I am on a lot of medication and make up a weekly pillbox so I have a lot of blister packs.
  2. n15hu's avatar
    Thank you Fern. I got a blister riding this Terracycle. Lol
  3. TristanDeCoonha's avatar
    But if you are a business, and can therefore collect more from your employees, and thus make a greater profit for Terracycle, they expect you to pay at least £91 for a pretty cardboard box
  4. aLV426's avatar
    Wow - I guess no one has considered the impact to the environment this recycling offer creates?
    In theory it sounds like a great idea, but has anyone done a study into the environmental costs of delivering all that waste?
    I have noticed some manufacturers are using plasticised paper instead of foil now, which I guess makes recycling even more difficult and expensive.
    fern37's avatar
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    The plasticised paper makes it harder to get the pills out and I end up snapping them in half trying to pop them out. I've been told to use a knife and score round above each tablet to make it easier to pop out. It's harder for elderly patients to snap them out than if they were made from foil.
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