Drugs: Packaging

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much pharmaceutical blister-pack waste is generated in the UK each year; what proportion is recycled; and what proportion goes into general waste.

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1. 13 October 2026

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much pharmaceutical blister-pack waste is generated in the UK each year; what proportion is recycled; and what proportion goes into general waste.

   Source: Commons

2. 19 October 2026

   Answer

   Defra does not hold UK-wide data on annual pharmaceutical blister-pack waste or the proportions recycled and disposed in general waste. Blister packs are not separately identified in national packaging waste statistics or other waste datasets. They are ge...

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