Mick F wrote:Just had one of my fortnightly injections.
The pens arrive by courier every three months in a polystyrene box with ice blocks.
The ice blocks are cheap plastic bottles of frozen water and can be recycled easily with other plastic bottles.
We put the freezer blocks into the freezer, but just having a clear-out and assessment of what's in there, we decided we didn't need the blocks, so put them in a bowl of water to defrost them.
They don't have a screw top, so I drilled a hole in one of them at both ends to drain out the water ........................ except it's not water.
It seems to be a glycerine substance, so we can't even recycle these blocks!
There are another three.
I'll be getting in touch with these people - Fresenius Medical Care - and tearing them off a strip and saying that I don't want them to supply me any more unless they can take back the JUNK. No doubt the NHS pay these people to deliver my medication, so if I don't want them to supply me, they're going to be out of pocket.
I have no objection to my collecting the medication from the hospital personally. The pens can be out of the fridge for hours with no damage, so it's only a matter of me collecting them ........... I could even do it by bike.
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Mick F. Cornwall