Submitted on Friday 25th August 2023
Rejected on Wednesday 30th August 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce a comprehensive take back scheme for medical/veterinary blister packs.
According to Statista (2023) the top 3 drugs prescribed in 2021/22 totalled 126 million items (definition - each time a product appeared on a prescription).
Few recyclers accept the waste and at present Supadrug pharmacies (using Terracycle) will only accept an individual's own used packs.
We call on Government to:-
1. To make funding available to medical and veterinary practices, pharmacies, and hospitals to enable them to take back and recycle all blister packs.
2. To make pharmaceutical companies take responsibility for their waste under the Extended Producers Responsibility regulations and fund recycling initiatives.
3. To accelerate the pharmaceutical industry's introduction of more sustainable packaging.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have the following petitions open which we think are similar to yours which you may wish to sign:
Require pharmacies to offer recycling facilities for blister packs: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638669
Introduce environmental packaging rules for medicines and supplements: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634046
Include blister packs for medication in the UK Plastic Packaging Tax: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634377
Require councils to collect blister pack waste as part of household recycling: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634375
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