All posts in the topic Flixotide asthma inhalers (Short link)

From: Andrew Groom Date: 2006 Jun 29 12:21 NZST Short link

Hi All,

To kick this group off, I'm a regular user of an asthma inhaler produced by
GlaxoSmithKline (http://www.gsk.co.nz/). The medication
(http://www.gsk.co.nz/product.asp?productID=21) consists of a little bottle of
the actual drug plus a plastic holder (which is most of the bulk of the
product). The item lasts for up to a few months, after which it is replaced.
The plastic holder is still perfectly good after this time, and the bottle is
easily separated from it by design (so you can clean it if necessary).

The problem is that you get one of these plastic holders every time you buy a
new inhaler. The perfectly good holder from the last one is not recyclable and
goes straight into the bin. Given that hundreds of thousands of these things
will be sold in NZ alone every year, that's a fair bit of plastic going to
landfill unnecessarily.

So, I emailed them about it via their contact page and got told to contact them
at 0800 808 500. I did so, and talked to a customer services rep who took my
details and said that someone would get back to me. I'll keep you posted on
developments.

Also, if you know anyone else who's an asthma sufferer, you might want to
suggest they get in touch with GlaxoSmithKline about this as well.

Cheers, Andrew.