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Can the Freestyle Libre applicator be recycled?

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Rosie9876

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
Abbott should have a scheme to recycle Libre applicators. As far as I know, they are not suitable for recycling and it all adds up to a lot of plastic waste.
 
I guess there's a health/contamination issue with that. There will be bodily fluids on the sensor and I assume would be treated similarly to surgical waste, which iirc is always incinerated.
 
I take the needle and spring out of the applicator and put all the plastic in the local recycling.
 
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