The Carex® Recycling Programme
Recycle your Carex®, Imperial Leather® and Bayley's of Bond Street® hand wash pumps and refill pouches
- Participating locations
- 107
- Available locations
- 143
How to participate
You can recycle your Carex®, Imperial Leather® and Bayley's of Bond Street® hand wash pumps and refill pouches in 2 different ways:
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By dropping them off at a nearby public drop-off location
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By setting up your own public drop-off location
To learn more, please take a look at the "How It Works" section further down the page before clicking on the button below.
Drop-off locations
How it works
There are 2 different ways to participate in this programme:
1) Drop off your hand wash pumps and refill pouches at your nearest public drop-off location
Find your nearest public drop-off location on the interactive map above and drop off any accepted Carex®, Imperial Leather® and Bayley's of Bond Street® hand wash pumps and refill pouches during the opening hours.
To learn more about public drop-off locations, please click here.
2) Set up a public drop-off location
If there are no public drop-off locations near you, you can set up your own. Simply follow the steps below:
- Create a TerraCycle® account
- Find a public place to host your collection (with the prior consent of the person in charge of the place)
- Fill out this form to finalise your request
To learn more about what public drop-off locations are and what it involves to set up one, please click here.
Once you are a member of the programme (by setting up a public drop-off location) and when you are ready to send a shipment, please follow these steps:
- Download a free UPS label from your account
- Print your label out
- Attach your label to your parcel
- Simply book a free pick-up via UPS by calling 03457 877 877 or book online via this link. Alternatively, you can also drop off your parcel at your closest UPS drop-off point, which you can find here.
What you can recycle in this programme
Please check out our Accepted Waste Poster below for more details.
What happens to this waste
Once collected, your used hand wash pumps and refill pouches are separated by polymer type and cleaned (if necessary). The material is then extruded into plastic pellets to make new recycled products. Click here to learn more about the recycling process.
Rewards
This programme offers 100 TerraCycle® points for each kilogram of hand wash pumps and refill pouches sent. However, the points will only be awarded if the parcel reaches the minimum weight of 1 kilogram.
For example:
500 grams = 0 TerraCycle® points
1 kilogram = 100 TerraCycle® points
2 kilograms = 200 TerraCycle® points
Please note that TerraCycle® points are only credited to the accounts of public drop-off location administrators as a reward for their collection efforts. The number of points given is determined by the weight of the parcel. 1 TerraCycle® point is worth 1 penny.
Once credited, the points can be redeemed into financial donations to the charity or school chosen by the owner of the points. The points must be redeemed on the TerraCycle® website.
Resources
Learn more about PZ Cussons
As a major corporation within the personal care sector, PZ Cussons are committed to reducing the amount of plastic they use with their “25 by 25” Plastic Promise.
In line with this, PZ Cussons has teamed up with TerraCycle® to launch the Carex® Recycling Programme which gives new life to previously not recycled waste from some of their best-loved personal care brands: Carex®, Imperial Leather® and Bayley's of Bond Street®.
Find out more about PZ Cussons
