♻️We are signing up to the Pencycle recycling scheme.
♻️Patients will be able to return their used injectable items for us for recycling.
(Please hang on to them in the meantime until we have the collection box in place at the end of the month!)
This will cover the following items:
i. Wegovy®
ii. Ozempic®
iii. Tresiba®
iv. Levemir®
v. NovoRapid®
vi. Fiasp®
vii. NovoMix®
viii. Xultophy®
♻️Novo Nordisk supplies about 25 million of these in the UK market annually which contributes to about 400 tonnes of plastic waste as people generally throw them away in their general waste (assumed landfill) or use their sharps bin (assumed incineration) to dispose of them, after use.
The scheme focus on plastic and the scope is to tackle the injection-pen device.
Whilst today the scheme is only for these devices, Novo Nordisk is in dialogue with our peer companies to see if we can find a solution that includes their devices too.