Post #644506

2025-11-11 12:09 UTC

To recycle blister packs at a popular high street chemist, you need to: &quot;1. Register and opt in by downloading the Recycle at Boots App 2. Log empty blister packs in the app and wait for up to 24 hours until they are validated 3. Bring their empty packs into a participating Boots store and scan the QR code on the blister pack deposit box&quot; If I were designing a scheme to put people off recycling and ensure as little uptake as possible whilst looking virtuous, I&#39;d do it like that.

Replies (8)

@eleanorrees@mas.to 2025-11-11 12:39

"Log empty blister packs in the app and wait for up to 24 hours until they are validated" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

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@fak@toot.community 2025-11-11 12:23

@eleanorrees@mas.to if you have a Superdrug with a pharmacy near you, they supposedly have boxes where you can just drop them off (but there's no easy way to check which stores these are).

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@agvbergin@mastodon.me.uk 2025-11-11 12:41

@eleanorrees@mas.to Honestly I think Boots is overall a bit useless and has lots of non-best practices, and is owned by Private Equity. Would not be surprised if they don't really exist in 5 years time.

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@tessarakt@mastodon.social 2025-11-11 12:56

@eleanorrees@mas.to Is that legal?

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@u0421793@pikopublish.ing 2025-11-11 13:04

@eleanorrees@mas.to we saved up a big bunch of them over the year and took them in to Stratford Westfield and a staff member explained to us how to use the stupid idiotic system they have, and even she found it tedious, and it turned out that we can’t do it there and then so we took them all back home and realised it wasn’t going to amount to much return at all, so a few weeks later I shoved them all in the bin, much to our satisfaction – we’re never going to want to recycle them ever again. It’s not the principle of the thing, it’s the money! And the complicatedness, it should be easy.

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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social 2025-11-11 14:52

@eleanorrees@mas.to so, someone without a smartphone can't recycle. Someone with an old smartphone can't recycle. Someone who doesn't want to download an app (because of privacy or security concerns) or hasn't got the spare capacity on their phone, or it's a work phone, can't recycle. And those who are left have to jump through numerous hoops just to do it. #enshittification at its finest.

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@jesscourtney@mastodon.social 2025-11-11 15:15

@eleanorrees@mas.to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk Technically you don’t need to register - I’ve recycled toothpaste tubes at Boots without logging anything. I think the logging is tied to their reward-points offer.

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@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social 2025-11-12 07:21

@eleanorrees@mas.to Gosh this is wild!! Not every chemist has it, but where I live some chemists just.. have an open bin that you put the blister packs in. That's it!

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