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AIBU to collect plastic wrapping and tablet packaging for recycling?

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MsGreying · 04/04/2026 22:40

Are you all collecting up the plastic wrapping and taking it in store to recycle.
You can do crisp packets and all sorts.
It does mean the grey bin has less stuff in it but means I have to actually go to the supermarket to get rid of it. We have home delivery for almost everything.

We're also saving up tablet packaging to take to either superdrug or boots. We now have a large bag of that. I don't go near either of those shops though.

Perhaps actually I'm just realising I don't go to shops anymore.

AIBU to not like taking recycling to shops.?

OP posts:
IloveJonBonJovi · 05/04/2026 00:49

We have soft plastic recycling here. It’s cut down massively on what goes in our normal bin bags

fluffythecat1 · 05/04/2026 00:44

Yes, soft plastics go to the Aldi recycling bin, empty tablet strips go to the recycling bin in Superdrug. A lot of plastics can be reused before recycling, e.g. bread bags used to take sandwiches to work. Almost everything that is good for the environment will also save you money.

sorryIdidntmeanto · 05/04/2026 00:12

Yes, all soft plastics get squished into a bread bag and taken to the supermarket. Very easy to do. Cat food pouches, cereal bar wrappers, crisp packets, veg packaging, cereal bags etc. You can't put things with big stickers in. We have hardly any rubbish collected now.

Anyahyacinth · 04/04/2026 23:42

I do mine too. Seeing the tablet packs mount up makes it seem really worthwhile to me

XenoBitch · 04/04/2026 23:33

Ah yes, tetrapaks. Still not recycled where I live. But the last city I lived in, they were a kerbside collection.

OkOkWhatsNext · 04/04/2026 23:27

DH and I were talking about this earlier in the context of the food waste recycling that councils are being required to do. We compost ours in the garden anyway, but doesn’t food waste just decay away fairly rapidly anyway? Whereas those crisps packets aren’t going anywhere fast. It feels like it’d be more beneficial if councils were required to collect and recycle soft plastics to make that easier for people to do than having to cart it off to the supermarket, and maybe work out a way of recycling the tetrapaks and plastic food containers that we can’t currently recycle.

Decacaffeinatednow · 04/04/2026 23:25

Not any more. Our recycling efforts are just pathetic when you consider the catastrophic consequences of the wars in Iran and Ukraine. Piddling about with soft plastics is meaningless.

Davros · 04/04/2026 23:23

I put that stuff in my recycling bin. I don’t take it to any shops

socialdilemmawhattodo · 04/04/2026 23:20

I recycle whatever I can. Bread bag of scrunchy plastic, washed if necessary, to whichever supermarket i am shopping at. I normally use ocado and include with their plastic bag retakes.

XenoBitch · 04/04/2026 23:14

I get my weekly meds from Tesco, so take my soft plastics at the same time too. Also water filters and batteries if I remember.

GrillaMilla · 04/04/2026 22:45

I take all mine to Aldi.

It's amazing/scary how much there is.
Now I know it's so much every week, I could never put it in the ordinary bin for landfill. I don't mind taking it.
I take my old batteries too.

marmitegirl01 · 04/04/2026 22:42

Yup I do both. Take to local Coop for plastic wrap. And save up blister packs & batteries. Take in to local shops drop off at Boots & Robert Dyas.