The CALPOL® brand teams up with Tesco for a new medicine packaging and materials recycling trial

[9 AUGUST 2023, LONDON, UK] – The CALPOL® brand has teamed up with Tesco for a new recycling trial to give people an easy way to dispose of hard-to-recycle medicine packaging and materials. With the trial running throughout Summer, shoppers can drop old CALPOL® plastic syringes, blister packs, plastic medicine spoons and empty capped plastic medicine bottles at designated recycling units at select Tesco stores across the UK[1]. And, for those not living near a participating Tesco store, the CALPOL® brand has introduced a freepost option2.

Small items such as bottles, medicine syringes, blister packs and spoons can sometimes be too small for the machinery at standard recycling facilities to sort, filter, and process, highlighting the need for the CALPOL® brand and Tesco’s new initiative.

Charmaine England, Area Managing Director Northern Europe at Kenvue said, “As the UK’s best-selling children’s medicine brand3, we hear many stories of parents with CALPOL® syringes that they don’t know what to do with, so we have listened and taken action.”

She continued, “While you can already add CALPOL® product packaging and glass bottles to appropriate household recycling for kerbside collection, we know it can be tricky to ensure that smaller items such as plastic medicine syringes, blister packs and spoons are collected and recycled. That’s why we’re excited to collaborate with Tesco to give consumers a convenient way to dispose of their CALPOL® materials. By launching this innovative trial, we’re helping to increase the chances of our plastic materials being recycled and used in new products such as plastic children’s tables and chairs, helping to protect our environment.”

Shoppers can also use the recycling points to deposit plastic packaging, blister packs and spoons from other leading Kenvue medicine brands, including BENADRYL®, IMODIUM®, BENYLIN® and more. 

The new recycling trial with Tesco supports Kenvue, the makers of CALPOL®, on its Healthy Lives Mission to build a healthier tomorrow for people and our planet. Kenvue is improving the sustainability of its products, packaging, and operations and investing $800 million by 2030 to support its ambitions.

Deposited items will be collected by MYGroup, specialists in recycling and reusing materials that are destined for waste, and transformed into new objects through MYGroup’s subsidiary, ReFactory.

1 Drop off points are now available at the following participating Tesco stores:

• Tesco Aberdeen Extra, PE29 3FG
• Tesco Blackpool Clifton Extra, DT9 3ND
• Tesco York Tadcaster Road Extra, YO24 1LW
• Tesco Bradley Stoke Extra, BS32 8EF
• Tesco Hartlepool Extra, TS25 1UP
• Tesco Hastings Extra, TN38 9RB
• Tesco Aylesbury Extra, HP19 8BU
• Tesco Hatfield Extra, AL9 5JY
• Tesco Ashford Park Farm Extra, TN23 3LU
• Tesco Baguley Extra, ME15 6SF

2 For those who do not live near one of the Tesco stores taking part in the trial, the CALPOL® brand have introduced a freepost option for people to send used CALPOL® syringes to, to ensure these are recycled efficiently. Please send a minimum of five items per package, to minimise the carbon footprint of posting. The address to send packages to is as follows:

FAO: Calpol Syringe Recyclability

Kenvue Consumer Care Team

Freepost RUGE–BSCL–LXHY

Johnson & Johnson Limited

50-100 Holmers Farm Way

High Wycombe

HP12 4DP

3 Source ©2023 NielsenIQ data, Value, Units, Total Paediatrics (Kids Medicine) (Client Defined) 52 w/e 20.05.23 (GB Total Coverage)

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NOTES TO EDITORS

ABOUT CALPOL®

CALPOL® is a Kenvue brand (Johnson & Johnson Limited).). For generations, mums and dads have reached for CALPOL® products when their children feel poorly. From stuffy noses and sore throats, to aches and pains, fevers and teething, we’ve carefully developed a family of effective medicines and non-medicines to help you take great care of your little one. For over 50 years, our commitment to developing gentle yet effective treatments to help parents look after their children has never changed.

The CALPOL® Family includes paracetamol and ibuprofen-based medicines that are specially designed for children, to offer them relief from the discomforts of pain and fever. We have also created products to help with coughs, to soothe teething pain, and to help you look after your little one when they get a cold.

CALPOL® SIXPLUS™ Suspension (for 6+ years only). Contains paracetamol. For pain and fever relief. CALPROFEN® Ibuprofen Suspension for infants 3+ months (weighing over 5kg). For pain and fever. Always read the label.

CALPOL®’s PRODUCT RANGE

To find out about CALPOL®’s wide product range, please visit calpol.co.uk.

About Kenvue

Kenvue is the world’s largest pure-play consumer health company by revenue. Built on more than a century of heritage, our iconic brands, including Aveeno®, BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages, Johnson’s®, Listerine®, Neutrogena®, and Tylenol®, are science-backed and recommended by healthcare professionals around the world. At Kenvue, we believe in the extraordinary power of everyday care and our teams work every day to put that power in consumers’ hands and earn a place in their hearts and homes. Learn more at www.kenvue.com.