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vic hill

vic hill

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Location
bury st edmunds suffolk
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
Good Morning all
Today following a huge a ground swell of interest of what to put in what bins ie black bin brown bin and blue bin
i take 5 medications every day and can find that the BOXES FOIL LEAFLETS and labels .
DO NOT HAVE VERY CLEAR recyle marks on.
Today i checked a blood sugars containers for the the recyling mark were was it under the lid so i know that in this part of
ENGLAND it can go in the blue bin
so what about the foil ???
and the labels with my name on which most of the time i take of and srew up to go in black bin
but to tell you what , nothing on the boxes ....
like the supermarket you buy ham in plastice container the bottem is recycled but not the top bit of plastice
we try and get this clear advice on meds anyone agree or indeed ever COMPLAIN
soap box vic
60 years on insulin ps what about the pump bits of line ect
 
I think we need to check on your specific area council's website to confirm what you can and can't recycle.

I'm well up on national guidelines and recycle markings, but our local council sent out a letter this week reminding us exactly what should be in each bin. In our area none of the plastic trays for sausages, ham and so on are recycle items. Plastic sauce bottles but not the lids.

I suspect that, until lately they weren't too bothered as they were dumping all of the recycle abroad. The Chinese, and others are now refusing to take other countries recycle and our authorities are having to take recycling seriously now.
 
As @jackois says, it depends on your local council.
For example, I have no blue, black, brown boxes.

I only recycle labels with personal details on after I have shredded them as I do not want to share my id with anyone even if it has been screwed up.

Regarding pump set recycling, that probably depends on the pump.
I have an Animas Vibe. I recycle all the paper, the used cartridges, the cannula applicator (with the needle removed and put in my sharps bin). The only thing that goes in the (non-recycling) rubbish is the film part of the packaging and the tubing (with the cannula part removed and put in the sharps bin).
 
vic hill said:
Good Morning all
Today following a huge a ground swell of interest of what to put in what bins ie black bin brown bin and blue bin
i take 5 medications every day and can find that the BOXES FOIL LEAFLETS and labels .
DO NOT HAVE VERY CLEAR recyle marks on.
Today i checked a blood sugars containers for the the recyling mark were was it under the lid so i know that in this part of
ENGLAND it can go in the blue bin
so what about the foil ???
and the labels with my name on which most of the time i take of and srew up to go in black bin
but to tell you what , nothing on the boxes ....
like the supermarket you buy ham in plastice container the bottem is recycled but not the top bit of plastice
we try and get this clear advice on meds anyone agree or indeed ever COMPLAIN
soap box vic
60 years on insulin ps what about the pump bits of line ect
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Hi Vic, Good to see a local! The annoying thing about foil wrapped pills is that the foil would need to be seperated from the plastic, in other words the cost prohibits doing that. If I have confidential labels, I compost them in my back garden. I haven't seen any regular plants cave in yet! All the best, Grant
 
I think the tubing is technically medical waste, and isn't supposed to be recycled. I was told to stick the whole thing in the sharps bin, needle, tubing and pump reservoir.
 
Grant_Vicat said:
Hi Vic, Good to see a local! The annoying thing about foil wrapped pills is that the foil would need to be seperated from the plastic, in other words the cost prohibits doing that. If I have confidential labels, I compost them in my back garden. I haven't seen any regular plants cave in yet! All the best, Grant
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HALLO GRANT
STILL LOOKING AT YOUR BOOK trust you well sir
my point i should have said look at your meds boxes there is nothing on them at all and should be something even the gluco tablet do but not the big containers
vic
ie the traingle sign for recyleing
 
vic hill said:
HALLO GRANT
STILL LOOKING AT YOUR BOOK trust you well sir
my point i should have said look at your meds boxes there is nothing on them at all and should be something even the gluco tablet do but not the big containers
vic
ie the traingle sign for recyleing
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Thanks to you I discovered this forum. It's brilliant! Hope you're in fine fettle after so many years of Type 1.
 
vic hill said:
Good Morning all
Today following a huge a ground swell of interest of what to put in what bins ie black bin brown bin and blue bin
i take 5 medications every day and can find that the BOXES FOIL LEAFLETS and labels .
DO NOT HAVE VERY CLEAR recyle marks on.
Today i checked a blood sugars containers for the the recyling mark were was it under the lid so i know that in this part of
ENGLAND it can go in the blue bin
so what about the foil ???
and the labels with my name on which most of the time i take of and srew up to go in black bin
but to tell you what , nothing on the boxes ....
like the supermarket you buy ham in plastice container the bottem is recycled but not the top bit of plastice
we try and get this clear advice on meds anyone agree or indeed ever COMPLAIN
soap box vic
60 years on insulin ps what about the pump bits of line ect
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I realise this is an old post but I have an Update if anyone is reading this. SUperdrug stores which have a Pharmacy attached do Recycling of Foil blister packs.
 
You beat me to it Grant. We keep all our blister packs until we have a big bag as neither of our local Superdrugs have pharmacies. Then on a trip to Cambridge we get rid of them. Works really well.
 
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