Play your part in helping reduce pharmaceutical waste!

We are calling all Borderers to play their part in helping reduce pharmaceutical waste. This will both save money and go some way to helping us be as environmentally friendly as possible. 

Please take the quick step to put any cardboard packaging in your home recycling bin before bringing blister packs and bottles of medication to your Community Pharmacy.  

The cost of transporting and incinerating medical waste can be up to eight times higher than recycling waste at home. We can significantly reduce the amount of waste we are producing each month with your help.

Alison Wilson, Director of Pharmacy, said: “It would be a huge help to our pharmacists, our waste disposal colleagues, the health board, and the planet if you put your cardboard and paper packaging in your recycling bin before returning medication.” 

Remember to only order what you need – this will reduce all our waste.