At Pharmacycle, we believe that transparency is the antidote to greenwashing. For too long, medicinal blister packs have been a hidden waste stream in Australia. Too complex for kerbside bins and too voluminous to ignore. Since our launch in 2022, we have focused on building a verifiable, end-to-end domestic solution that keeps resources within the Australian economy.
Australia’s healthcare sector is a significant contributor to national waste. Blister packs, made of high-quality aluminium and PVC plastic, are technically recyclable but economically difficult to process. Without a dedicated pathway, over 2 Billion packs are sent to Australian landfills annually, or worse, contaminating kerbside recycling streams and compromising the quality of other recovered materials.
We don’t just "offset" impact; we physically transform waste into raw materials. Our current milestones include:
We ensure that "recycled" means "remade." By separating materials into clean streams, we supply local manufacturers with high-quality feedstock:
Through rigorous weighing, tracking, and reporting, we provide our partners with the data they not just to prove, but claim, their commitment to a circular future.
For Pharmacycle, circularity and carbon transparency go hand-in-hand; we are committed to ensuring that every blister pack diverted from landfill is processed with the smallest possible environmental footprint and has partnered with NetNada to measure and report ongoing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
Media Relations Team:
Email: media@pharmacycle.com.au
General Public & Pharmacy Sales:
Email: sales@pharmacycle.com.au
Hospitals, Pharmacy Chains & Supply Chain Sales:
Contact: Jason Rijnbeek
Email: jason.rijnbeek@pharmacycle.com.au
To ensure our operations are as lean as our recycling processes, Pharmacycle partners with NetNada to measure, analyse, and report our carbon emissions. This partnership allows us to move beyond estimates, providing our stakeholders with a rigorous, data-driven account of our climate impact.
Active collection points for
consumer drop-offs
The number of blister packs
recycled since July 2022
Percentage of material collected that
is diverted from landfill
Our pre-paid satchel puts the power in you hands, making it easy for you to recycle blister packs from the comfort of your home.
All satchel bags we receive at our recycling facility are emptied and consolidated before we send off to our recycling partner Plastic Forests Pty Ltd.
These will be turned into wheel stops, fence posts and garden edging. Just another way we ensure our impeccable record of 99.9% diversion from landfill.
Pharmacycle strives to have the most accessible blister pack recycling program in Australia.
We have worked hard with our logistics partners to ensure material can be collected efficiently and in a safe manner.
With ownership of recycling technology we ensure that there is no stockpiling and all material is processed right here in Australia.
Pharmacycle has partnerships with trusted local manufacturers who use our recovered materials to substitute virgin resources.
This report was prepared by NetNada, a leading carbon management and sustainability reporting software for businesses. NetNada worked closely with our team to ensure the methodology aligns with the globally recognised GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard.
This report is for anyone interested in understanding Pharmacycle's environmental impact. That includes our pharmacy partners, hospitals, government bodies who want to know the carbon footprint of their recycling program, pharmaceutical companies tracking their Scope 3 emissions, healthcare organisations with sustainability commitments, and consumers who care about the full lifecycle impact of their choices.
The intensity metric of carbon per blister packs recycled tells you the average carbon emissions generated to collect, transport, and process blister packs through our recycling program. It's a way to measure efficiency — and something we aim to reduce each year as we optimise our operations and transition to cleaner energy sources.
If your pharmacy participates in the Pharmacycle program, you can use our intensity metric to estimate the carbon footprint of the blister packs you send for recycling. Simply multiply the number of blister packs (in thousands) to approximate kgCO₂-e figure. This can be included in your own sustainability reporting or used to communicate your environmental commitment to customers. If you are a customer you can see this information within your portal.
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