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Partnering with You to Protect Our Environment

Protecting the environment has never been easier. Everything shipped to you with your prescription can be returned and recycled. The IgCares recycling program ensures that you can dispose of your sharps, other infusion supplies, and the packaging and shipping materials associated with your prescription, not just safely, but with positive environmental impact – 100% of what you return is repurposed into an industrial material used to generate electricity for homes and businesses! It’s painless and it’s responsible.

Let’s make a difference together. Similar programs have helped divert over 11.9 million pounds of waste from landfills, leading to the reduction of over 5,950 tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gasses, and generating enough electricity to power over 5,000 homes a month!1

We're proud to offer this complimentary recycling program to patients.

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Why Recycle Infusion Materials?

Improve Safety

It's crucial that you dispose of your sharps and other infusion supplies responsibly, keeping other people safe and keeping potentially dangerous materials out of landfills.

Get Greener

Go beyond recycling sharps and other infusion supplies with our patient- and environmentally-friendly recycling program. You can also recycle the Styrofoam cooler your prescription ships in, as well as all the other packing supplies.

Generate Energy

Everything you return is repurposed into an industrial material used to generate electricity for homes and businesses.

Earn IgCares Points

Help the primary immunodeficiency (PI) community and other patients just like you by earning points and having us donate corresponding funds. Every time you recycle, you'll receive 1 point that IgCares will convert to dollars and donate to the participating charity of your choice.


Become part of our patient- and environmentally friendly recycling program and earn 5 points. Everyone will benefit!

What Can You Recycle?

Everything shipped to you with your prescription can be returned and recycled!

Sharps

Infusion Supplies

Packing Materials

Infusion needles, spike adapters

Used syringes, tape, gauze, alcohol wipes, tubing

Styrofoam, plastic, cardboard, paper

How to Recycle

1. Receive Rx and Recycling Materials

When you enroll in the IgCares recycling program, you will receive:

  • A custom sharps container to safely dispose of your needles and other biohazardous materials
  • An additional box to dispose of remaining infusion supplies and all packaging and shipping materials

These will include prepaid, pre-labeled return shipping boxes for returning all of your infusion materials to the recycling facility. Detailed recycling instructions will also be included.

2. Dispose After Infusion

Once you have completed your infusion, place your used needles and other biohazardous materials in the sharps disposal container. Place everything else including your packing and shipping materials in the other recycling carton.

3. Package Up Materials

When your sharps container and packing material container are nearly full, package everything according to the instructions provided in the original recycling packages you received.

4. Ship Return Materials

Ship the packages back to the recycling center following the printed instructions provided in the original recycling packages you received. The instructions are also available on the Recycling Guide page of the IgCares member portal, and in the support section of the IgCares mobile app.

References

1. Sharps Compliance, Inc. Sharps Compliance – Celebrating Earth Day Every Day. Website: https://blog.sharpsinc.com/celebrating-earth-day-every-day. Accessed May 17, 2019.

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