How can I reuse or recycle … tablet blister packs?
John pulled a muscle in his neck last weekend so has been sucking down ibuprofen tablets all this week.
Like the powdered baby milk containers, the blister packs are mixed materials – plastic for the “blisters” and foil underneath – does anyone know if they can be recycled?
Or anyone clever reuses for the blister bits? They’re so small – and without a “lid” once the foil has been popped – that I can’t imagine there would be many uses but I hate to think of anything as lacking a reuse. So suggestions?
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this is a tough one, can i suggest if you are ever making a scale model of a DALEK from Doctor Who they would be ideal for the outer casing :)
that made me think, you could donate them as craft materials to a primary school/ playgroup?
school might not take them because of previous contents contamination. I know!!! it’s taking things a bit far,but they refuse toilet paper inner cardboard rolls near us, but they will take kitchen roll middles.
Actually, I’m making a papier-mache bowl at the moment, and sticking strips from blister packs around it (well, everywhere but the base). I’m going to paint it and give it to my boyfriend as a Dalek-themed bowl! (We’re both ‘Who-crazy, although him more so than I.)
EXTERMINATE!!!
Tear all the foil off and use the wells to hold paint when painting with oil/watercolors.
a mould for mini chocolate buttons or drops
use it as a mould for chocolate drops or mini chocolate buttons
you can make some funky plastic braclets. cut into one long strip and decorate the bubbles or put a single bead etc in each one.put some good ole electric tape over the back to seal it. and attach a piece of thread through a hole each end and tie or use a clasp from some broken jewellery.
If you cut out each blister with 2-4mm extra then they become a perfect acessory for card making. Pop a little bid or a lentil inside, stick it to the card – and there you have rolling eyes for any creature you may wish to draw or glue onto the card!
well it is a major problem to recycle this blister but if you can separate the foil and the plastic then it is of great value. You can separate the foil and plastic and sell it at a very good value for recycling . May be you can earn a fortune with it.There are always buyers ready to buy plastic scrap and aluminium scrap.Think about it if anyone can crack it it will solve a major plastic waste problem.
The foil and the plastic can be separated by milling the blister down to 0,5mm particles (micronizing). How can you saparate it then, without destroying one of them?
Take them back to the chemist’s shop by the bagful and ask them to get pharmaceutical companies to think of something better.
put it on the inside of a rattle or rainmaker and it would help to make a louder noise?
I’ve used them for print making to get some interesting effects. place them under some heavy books for a few days till they flatten a bit, coat with paint and apply to paper. you can make some funky wrapping paper this way.
Can you indicate someone who can separate aluminum and pvc in a micronized (particles around 0,5mm)mixture?
I used to fill them with fruit juice and freeze them. They’re like little frozen sweets. Only really works with the larger ones.
make a solution of castic soda in water and dip blister pack into it for some time, castic will burn alumunium and u will left with platic for reuse. it can bwe done on commercial scale.
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tablets foil is made up of aluminium foil and pvc or pvdc,
We have to collect these blisters
melt them
filter it when it is hot and separate aluminium
you can recycle aluminium thus obtained and pvc mass thus separated
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Surfing for an answer to exactly this…. my dad (retired chemist) (not dispensing but smelting) always said to send the whole used pack with the poil, because the process detailed above will separate the Al from the pvc.
For myself, using such fingernails as I have, I find it most therapeutic to peel as much of the aluminium off as I can, put in clean foil (sheet or washed takeaway container) and – unfortunately – bin the remaining plastic.
This household does *use* a lot of prescription drugs, and therefore we store the used packs by our hdpe box, and have a separation binge every 10-14 days. Ideally we always purchase generic pills in hdpe pots.
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