Hooky recycling

06/06/2026

Robin here, one of the people that runs Hooky Recycling.

I recently saw a facebook advert for the "Wholly Shrinker 3.0"

https://whollyshrink.co.uk/products/shrinker

I ordered it, and it's great. It's smallish, lives on the worktop, and neatly crushes soft plastics for recycling.

The only downside is that it costs nearly 30 quid.

BUT... they do bulk discounts. If enough people are interested, I could put in a bulk order, and get the price down significantly.

Anyone interested?

Discover the Shrinker 3.0 – the eco-friendly solution to collect, compress, and store soft plastics. Made from 100% recycled plastic, this space-saving device reduces waste volume by up to 70% before recycling.

09/03/2026

Sorry folks, we can't recycle pill packets any more.

Sadly, the scheme we use to recycle pill packets closed last year. For a while Boots in Chipping Norton was taking our collections, but they’ve now said that they can’t cope with the volume. We’re in talks with the council to try to find a way forward, but at this time, we have no choice but to stop collecting this type of recycling.

Your pill packets can still be recycled if you can take them to Boots in Chippy, or Superdrug in Banbury yourself. Otherwise, you just have to put them in your green bin.

12/02/2026

Cllr Chris Brant, Cropredy & Hook Norton

Could you help us out?

For the past 5 years, we've run a recycling scheme in Hook Norton. We have a set of bins (outside the Library, but not involved with them). People can deposit lots of different sorts of things into these bins, and we organise getting them recycled.

One of the most popular types of thing we collect are pill packets. We get a large black bag full every couple of weeks.

Initially we used to send these off to Terracycle for recycling, but sadly they've stopped the free program. For the past year or so we've been taking them to Boots in Chippy who have kindly recycled them for us. But now, Boots have said that the volume of pill packets we are producing is too large for them to cope with.

So, what's going to happen now? Either we have to find someone else to handle these packets, or we'll have to close these bins, and everything will end up in landfill.

BUT... Banbury, Bicester, and Kidlington libraries have a pill packet recycling scheme.

Is there any chance we could somehow get involved with this scheme, please? We'd be happy to either work with Hook Norton Library on this, or to handle the collection/dispatch of pills ourselves.

The scheme has been a great success - please help it continue!