Disposing of Estrogel bottle

[Trixiebell06]

Hi , maybe an odd question but how do you dispose of your Estrogel bottle when it’s empty ?

Where I live, it's classed as plastic so it goes in the recycling bin for all hard plastic, cardboard and glass.

What are the recycling rules in your area?

I’m not too sure I’ll have to check

Ask your pharmacist?

Where do you put your tin cans and other plastic containers? eg shampoo bottles, washing up liquid bottles, laundry liquid bottles, glass bottles, hard plastic packaging from food?

We have 3 bins where I live.
Recycling, garden waste, and one for everything else that doesn't go into those two

@PaulaTrilloe

Ask your pharmacist?

It's hard plastic.

It goes with any other hard plastic like shampoo or shower gel bottles, or bleach bottles, etc.

Thankyou for your replies , we do have a bin for shampoo , bleach bottles etc but I’ll double check with a pharmacist

@Trixiebell06 A pharmacist doesn't necessarily deal with that - they will only know the recycling rules for their own home in their home town or for where the pharmacy is. It's not a medical issue (unlike returning unused drugs to a pharmacy.)

It's possible that the paper product guide or Google the Estrogel product sheet which might state the packaging material type as well as the pharmaceutical ingredients. Not all plastic types are recyclable depending on the recycling scheme where you live .

@PaulaTrilloe

It's possible that the paper product guide or Google the Estrogel product sheet which might state the packaging material type as well as the pharmaceutical ingredients. Not all plastic types are recyclable depending on the recycling scheme where you live .

@PaulaTrilloe The gel is made in Europe. There are no recycling instructions as it's not made in the UK and in any case, there is no consistency for recycling- each local authority has their own rules. The OP ought to have a leaflet from her local council showing what goes in which bin .

It's the same as hand gel or any hard plastic container. The bottle is empty when it's thrown away- it's not as if it's still full of a medicinal product

I didn’t realise until recently that it’s not just hard plastic…. there is something else lining the inside of the bottle, presumably to keep the gel fresh, I have no idea what it is, or what it means for recycling though.

and I didn't realise there would ever be a thread on what to do with a plastic bottle !

The inner pouch is plastic which collapses when it's empty.

It's the same design as some cosmetics and shower gels containers used by some companies.

@JinglingHellsBells ah I see!

I’m not sure if that’s recyclable where I live… usually it’s hard plastic only. Who bloody knows… Recycling is so complicated! (And apparently most plastic we are told to put in our recycling bins doesn’t even get recycled… it just gets shipped off to a huge, toxic offshore landfill site 😕)

I would just recycle as normal plastic as per other posters. I can’t recycle my vagifem applicators though. Which seems a bit crap.

Doing research on this myself and turns out we should be returning to pharmacies due to risk of contamination