Pharmaceutical companies MUST fund medicine packet recycling programmes.
Pharmaceutical companies MUST fund medicine packet recycling programmes.
Why this petition matters
TerraCycle have announced the closure of their medicine packet recycling scheme sponsored by Sanofi. We need other pharmaceutical companies to join forces with them to re-start this scheme. They all have a corporate responsibility to recycle the waste they produce - for the environment's sake.
Medicine packets have previously been unable to be recycled but TerraCycle found a solution so now they can be. The scheme has been closed as they were overwhelmed with billions of medicine packets that people wanted to recycle and they are having to re-think the infrastructure and the funding.
People are trying desperately to reduce their plastic usage and waste but when living with long term medical conditions this is not easy.
This petition is asking the following companies to support TerraCycle with the recycling of all medicine packets:
- Johnson & Johnson
- Pfizer
- Roche
- Novartis
- Merck & Co
- Sanofi
- Takeda
- AstraZeneca
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Baxter
- Bayer
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Galpharm
- Wockhardt