21 Apr 2021 (Last Updated April 21st, 2021 13:42) Sanofi Consumer Healthcare has partnered with US-based recycling initiative TerraCycle to make its product packaging and aerosol containers recyclable.   Sanofi Consumer Healthcare has partnered with US-based recycling initiative TerraCycle to make its product packaging and aerosol containers recyclable. Two programmes will be introduced to allow customers to recycle empty Gold Bond, Cortizone-10 and Selsun Blue packaging. The first recycling programme is for Gold Bond aerosol spray cans. Consumers can participate in the programme by signing up online on TerraCycle. The programme page provides instructions on how to ship empty aerosol containers to TerraCycle for recycling. The second programme is for other Gold Bond product packaging, as well as Cortizone-10 and Selsun Blue packaging. Interested consumers can sign up for the programme on TerraCycle’s non-aerosol page. Packaging that can be shipped for recycling includes plastic tubes, cartons, tubs, sticks, dark plastic bottles, pumps and caps. The collected packaging and aerosol container waste will be melted into hard plastic and remoulded to make recycled products, including park benches and picnic tables. TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky said: “Skincare is a daily routine we all share. We each have our personal preferences as it relates to the brands and products that we use, but we don’t often consider what happens to the packaging once all the product is gone. “With the Gold Bond, Cortizone-10 and Selsun Blue recycling programme, along with the Gold Bond aerosol recycling programme, Sanofi Consumer Healthcare has considered the end-of-life options for their packaging and partnered with TerraCycle to ensure that it never sees landfill.” Participants can earn points for every shipment of waste they send to TerraCycle through the programmes. These points can either be used for charity gifts or donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organisation of their choice after converting it to cash. Schools, offices and community organisations can also take part in both programmes. Hard freezer pop SLIQ Spirited Ice recently launched an initiative to make its packaging recyclable by partnering with TerraCycle. Consumers can send empty SLIQ Spirited Ice plastic tubes to TerraCycle, who will melt them into hard plastic and use them to make recycled products.

Blister packs and sachets for medication are not collected for recycling by most local authorities. The fact that they are lightweight and often multi-material, with materials often connected in laminated layers, make them incompatible with most existing recycling infrastructure. With this in mind – and building on the success of similar schemes for products from pet food pouches to Pringles tubes – TerraCycle has partnered with Sanofi UK Consumer Healthcare, which manufactures brands like Buscopan and Dulcolax, to launch a UK-wide take-back scheme for medicine packaging. The partnership is aiming to get 400 pharmacies to launch drop-off points within the first year of the scheme. Once drop-off points are full, their contents get collected by one of TerraCycle’s logistics partners and taken to one of its recycling facilities. Material is then processed ready to make new products like outdoor furniture. Packaging from any brand will be accepted.

TerraCycle has partnered with biopharmaceutical company Sanofi, the maker of Buscopan and Dulcolax, to launch a new initiative that allows consumers to recycle their empty medicine blister packs. The ‘Little Packs, Big Impact’ initiative allows consumers in the UK to recycle any empty prescription and over-the-counter medicine blister packets for free by dropping them in dedicated bins when they visit a local participating pharmacy.

Brits can now recycle their empty medicine blister packets by dropping them off at pharmacies participating in the latest initiative from recycling specialist Terracycle