Feel good about yourself, do good for the planet and get treats along the way. Everyone’s a winner with our recycling scheme.
What is the Recycle at Boots scheme?
Together with No7, we’re doing our bit to help keep our planet beautiful. That’s why we’re trialling a recycling scheme where you can bring your empty beauty, health, wellness and dental products, from any brand, that can’t be recycled at home.
Why is Boots doing a recycling scheme?
We know lots of beauty, health, wellness and dental items can’t be recycled traditionally due to their size, what materials they’re made from and various other factors.
We want to play our part in looking after the planet by making it easier to recycle items that might be difficult to recycle elsewhere. And we want to reward you for playing your part and making recycling part of your regime too.
What's unique about the scheme?
We’re using Scan 2 Recycle technology, developed by our partners Metrisk and ReWorked, to create a unique solution that helps the environment and rewards customers at the same time. Win, win!
When you visit one of our participating stores and bring five empty products to one of the in-store recycle bins, we’ll give you 500 Boots Advantage Card points – that’s worth £5! We’ll also track how many empties you bring back so you can see the positive impact you’re making to the planet.
What can I bring back?
We’d love you to bring back beauty, wellness, healthcare or dental products that you can’t recycle through your household waste.
It doesn’t matter what brand they are or where you bought them, we’ll make sure they find a new lease of life. Take a look at our T&Cs for a list of things we can and can’t currently recycle.
What happens to my empty products?
Once you’ve dropped your empties into the bins in store, they’ll be taken to ReWorked where the materials will be washed and sorted, ready for recycling into new usable products as far as possible.
Any remaining multi-material items will be recycled into Stormboard, a composite construction board material, similar to ply-wood, which has a lot of different uses.
Organics will be processed through an industrial organics processor. Nothing goes to landfill and nothing is incinerated.
After you’ve used the scheme, you’ll be able to log into your account to see how much you’ve deposited and how many empties have been recycled collectively. How good does that feel?
How can I take part?
It's really easy to take part, simply register here https://boots.scan2recycle.com/ and follow the steps below to get recycling and collect your rewards.
You can click and collect from one of 2,200 Boots stores for £1.50.
Standard delivery costs £3.50 or free when you spend £25 or more.
This is such a great initiative, here’s hoping they roll it out to my local Boots store soon.
Hopefully I’ll be able to recycle products such as old electric toothbrushes at some point.
It's a shame I threw away my old makeup recently. Will definitely recycle next time! Thanks!!
I have gained £165 through this the last 2 months.
Boots policy is changing as of 31 Dec. Strictly non recyclable items and limited to a max of 8 deposits a month.
Right now includes any body beauty cosmetic dental containers including recyclable ones, one deposit every 24 hrs.
Good scheme I’ll start saving my empty product containers in case my local Boots does this
Also check with your local John Lewis they do a similar one. But they trade on the spot. 5 beauties for £5 voucher to use again a beauty product in store.
Great thank you for sharing, love recycling, nice to be rewarded, hopefully encourage more recycling.
This sounds so exciting and would love to get involved but the list of participating stores is reaaaaally small! Boots need to expand this. Thanks for posting! X
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