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Reduce plastic waste from inhalers

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Hello, I saw many people writing about the unnecessary plastic waste from inhalers so I have set up a petition

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If you could share and sign in that would be amazing!

I know there are some schemes such as the gsk one where you send back inhalers but I know mmay people are not aware of this. A system where you could simply order only the canister and not the plastic part would be a major reduction on plastic waste.

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Signed! 😁

I make toys for kids with my empty plastic bits of course I have take the canisters out

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That's soo cool!

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Or I use GSK to recycle them. I also recycle them in the orange bag's but of course with COVID-19 getting hands on orange bag's is difficult

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Signed 👍

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Carriejen

I hand all my used inhalers back to the pharmacy. I've got a bag of them ready to go after this pandemic 🤣 but I've also always wondered why you cant get he canisters and just get a new plastic bit if and when you need it

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Bea2000 in reply toCarriejen

I didn't even know you could do that till you all mentioned it in the comments and when I was looking before writing the petition I found out you can send them to GSK, I've just been putting them in plastic recycling.

Did you GP surgery tell you about returning the plastic part?

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Carriejen in reply toBea2000

No I asked the pharmacy what to do. I give then the whole thing, canister and all, and I dont know what they're going to do with them

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Bea2000 in reply toCarriejen

Fair enough I never really knew how to get rid of them when they're empty

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I used to work in a supermarket with a pharmacy and they told me they could recycle the stuff. And now I've just been bagging everything up and it's ready to go whenever they start taking them again

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horseblister

My pharmacy never hand out the refills for Spirivamat(tiotropium) even though the information says they do make them.

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You can take them to Boots who recycle them.

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Can you do that even if you don't get them from boots?

That's great!

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Abc64

Hello. Some boots chemists take old inhalers and recycle them.

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ChrissieMons

I don't get mine from Boots but they take them anyway

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