“Medicine blister packets are a mix of difficult-to-recycle materials, which are currently not recycled by council systems, hence the piloting of this initiative.
We worked out the economics to focus on household recycling but received high volumes of empty blister packets from pharmacy dispensaries.“While we would love to recycle all medicine blister packets, regardless of source, we need to have a rethink and redesign of the programme’s infrastructure and funding that would accommodate the recycling of the large volumes we see coming in across the country.
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