Untapped options to reduce waste from blister packaging for tablets and capsules.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In Europe, most medicines are taken orally and primarily packaged as single solid oral dosage forms (SODF) in blister chambers (alveoli) arranged on blister cards. Blister cards are constructed as multilayer laminates of aluminum (Al) foils and/or various plastic polymers bonded together, forming the alveoli, which are separated by more or less large gaps. We calculated the amount of packaging material (and thus waste) generated annually for the packaging of the most commonly prescribed SODF in Germany and estimated how much waste could be saved by rearranging the alveoli.

Methods

For this purpose, we analysed the SODF of the 50 most frequently prescribed medicines that were packaged in alveoli (N = 45; 13 of aluminum-aluminum blisters, 32 of mixed materials), measur

SUBMITTER: Falconnier-Williams OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10781798 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature