AIBU to collect plastic wrapping and tablet packaging for recycling?

You can’t generalise that soft plastics aren’t collected with household recycling; each area has differs rules.
We can put soft plastics out with our fortnightly recycling.

Don’t do that. Household recycling does not recycle soft plastics hence the supermarkets take it back. That’s why everyone on this thread is doing it.
you will be contaminating all your recycling box as well as the total bin lorry and it will all have to go in landfill as your items are not recyclable in that manner.

also pill packets are not recycling in home recycling. It’s glass, cardboard, tins and certain kinds of hard plastic (you need to check the box it will say) it’s really important you recycle only things that can be recycled.

Tesco delivery drivers will take soft plastics after delivering your shopping if you ask them.

@ExOptimist That reminds me, I think I saw a make up recycling thing in Sainsbury's somewhere, it said they take any brand.

I take soft plastics to one of the supermarkets. Aldi, Lidl and Sainsbury’s have bins here, not sure if Tesco do as we’ve only recently moved here and I haven’t checked.

I’m back to binning tablet blister packs. I used to collect them and take them to Superdrug but there isn’t one which collects them in our new area, I didn’t know that Boots now collect them though so will start saving them again.

My council is shortly introducing soft plastic recycling. We can already put tetrapac in our plastics recycling.

Blister packs can be deposited at Boots stores. If you sign up to their recycling app you get 100 advantage card points per 5 blister packs deposited on a £5 shop.
Their recycling scheme also recycles difficult to recycle items like mascara, make up, toothbrushes, interdental brushes etc. You get 500 points via the recycling app per 5 items deposited, on a £10 shop.

You probably don't need to. Must people are near enough to a collection point, just look it up.

@MsGreying yes I do, a few of us neighbours recycle batteries, pill packers, tin foil & soft plastics. The rest of us are lucky that one of the neighbours takes most of it, most of the tine as she goes to an activity next to where it can all be dropped off. The shops in our village don't take any of it & I get my shopping delivered, so it would be a PITA if my neighbour couldn't take it, but I'd still do it as I now take several tablets a day & my conscience wouldn't allow me to put the packaging in the general waste. One of the 3 chemists in the village should really offer a collection point I think.

Always take soft plastics to the supermarket. Weirdly the cage for it is either empty (I am putting the first plastics in it) or so full you have to balance it carefully on top, there’s no ‘half full’ ever.

Hard plastics, tins and glass go in the wheely bin. Sad Brummie face here though (☹️) as it’s been full for over a year so now it clutters up the hallway until I take it to the tip.

Yes, we do both of those things.
I was so glad when the soft plastics in supermarkets started.

Before that I was our local terra cycle crisp packet collector. Collected empty, used, supposedly clean crisp packets and sent them off to terracycle for a few quid per kilo as a fundraiser for our school pta. I was sending off 30-40kg of crisps packets a month, (that's a LOT!) but I had to go through all donations and pick out the ineligible items so each load wasn't contaminated. The things people used to chuck in to my collection bins with their crisp packets was gross. General rubbish, used tissues, sticky sweets, the odd sock, pet food wrappers. The worst was some kindly person had collected several black bags worth from their workplace and stored them in a barn before donating. Mice had got in, the crisp packets were shredded where the mice had eaten them, they stank of mice wee, were covered in mice dropping and in one bag, 2 dead mice. I had to bin all of those as it was just too gross to sort through.

Don't do that unless your council.specificaly says to do so. You'll contaminate the whole batch and it can mean literal tons of recycling being sent to landfill.

If you can't/wont take them.to the correct recycling point it's better to throw them in the general bin.

Through your next door neighbours letter box.

Oh, OK. Well I'm not doing that then. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Nice one 😉

Separating the plastic from the foil needs a special machine, I think the only facility in the UK is TerraCycle. But sending stuff directly to them is really expensive. I spend under a fiver every few months, posing my vast collection of empty packs to a retailer (in sandwich bags, in a box, since you're interested).

https://zerowastebag.co.uk/pages/pricing

Kerbside recycling where I live is useless. We collect our soft plastics and take them to Morrisons, glass goes to the bottle bank, medication packs go to boots, batteries/lightbulbs/old clothes which aren’t good enough for charity/metal waste/weee waste all go in the relevant containers at the recycling centre. We don’t have food waste collection yet either. It’s part of our daily routine now to separate everything out but I wish it was all collected from home!

It doesn't cost much.😂What's the matter with you? 😂

No. It doesn't cost much - they're bulky but very light.

Do they have postage free packaging to send empty tablet blister packs?

In the post, what's the matter with you?!

What do you mean, post them?

😂 Yes!

I take a lot of medication. Seems churlish to send it all to landfill.

'Post them'?

Medication packs - you know, the blister cards you push the tablet through. My local chemists don't participate, so I save them up and post them to a Boots or Superdrug that does!

I don't go to the shops anymore either, OP. Strange, isn't it? Or is it? 🤔

To be clear, I'm talking about tablet blister packs. I get through A LOT with my son.

What? wait! you can recycle blister packs where?!