Recycling inhaler's

Does anyone know where I can recycle an empty inhaler? I have read that you can recycle inhaler's but I am not sure where I can recycle them

[EmmaF91 Community Ambassador]

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I think most boots/Llyod’s do but can just check your nearest on this site

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Thank you for your assistance. I have find the information I am looking for. Thanks again

[Yellow75]

Thanks for post hadn't even thought about recycling Inhalers.

[Taztarr]

I think it really depends on where you live.

Here in Northern Ireland they collect empty aerosol cans and plastics fortnightly along with cardboard and paper, so I just separate the inhaler and place the two bits in that bin.

When I lived in Somerset they also collected empty cans and plastics but would never take the two bits of the inhaler, leaving them in the empty kerbside bin. I could never figure that.

[hilary39]

Great question, I’ve always wondered the same. I’ll ask at my pharmacy next time I go-

[Loonadyar]

Hello Camilla22, You can take your empty inhalers to the local pharmacy for safe disposal. Maybe it will be the pharmacy where you pick up your inhalers initially. Also, the pharmacy will dispose of any unused medicines and tablets. It's simple. Hope this helps.

[Carolofcambridge]

Boots chemists take them

[Wheezycat]

My local pharmacy, a Whitworths one, will take empty canisters - the insides of Ventolin/salbutamol inhalers, but not the plastic. Locally here several smaller Boots and Day-Lewis pharmacies will take the plastic. The main Boots in the centre of town doesn’t. Always worth calling them before you go just to check that the information is still correct.

[Thomas45 in reply to Wheezycat]

Have you checked at: uk.gsk.com/en-gb/responsibi... About half way down the page at that address is a paragraph entitled "How to get involved" . Click on the highlighted words " locate your nearest participating pharmacy, hospital or dispensing doctor in the UK" type in your postcode , click on the magnifying glass, and a list of participating pharmacies near you come up.

[Wheezycat in reply to Thomas45]

Yes, but not recently, and these things can change. I never remember to bring them, well, I will in due course. There is a small pharmacy near here that do take them, though not the pharmacy I normally use.

[Thomas45 in reply to Wheezycat]

I have to add that I hadn't seen about this recycling scheme until today. In the past I have recycled the aerosol section of Salbutomol, but my other inhaler is a dry powder inhaler. I was surfing the internet on my mobile phone this morning looking at recycling sites and came across the scheme. I have been saving up empty inhalers so can now take them to my local Boots, which for me is only 400 metres away. I've also found a recycling scheme for empty cat food pouches, which pleases me as I have 3 cats.

[Gilly100]

Hi Asda pharmacy in my area does.

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I have find boots does thanks to a link EmmaF91 sent me

[DeborahBlythe]

I take them to the local pharmacy. I believe all pharmacies will accept back unused medicines (but they dispose of them, they never reissue them). I always take my 'empties' back to them too. I've done this with two or three different pharmacies and they have all been happy to take the empties back. You don't want old inhalers falling into the wrong hands. They will often have a trace of medines left behind.

[Wheezycat in reply to DeborahBlythe]

Whitworths don’t, or at least not our local. I have checked.

[LittleZebra]

I have just started recycling them through my local Boots. When I asked them a little while ago they didn’t do it but they do now .

[Hidden in reply to LittleZebra]

I got to check with mine

[Wheezycat in reply to LittleZebra]

Here in York small Boots seem to take them, but not the big one in the centre of town.

[Destiny10]

I take mine back to where I get my prescriptions from Rowlands pharmacy they recycle empty Inhalers.

[Abc64]

Hello. Someone told me that some boots shops are recycling inhalers.