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The Boots recycling scheme where you can get £5 off every shop

Thomas Melia Thomas Melia - 13th January 2026

UK high street retailer and healthcare shop Boots has launched an innovative recycling scheme that entitles customers to £5 off their future shopping trips.

If you're still struggling to come up with a New Year's resolution, why not try a spot of recycling and earn some money off your next cosmetics shop while you're at it?

Started in 2020, the Boots Recycling Scheme allows Advantage Card holders the opportunity to get money while also being more conscious about how we recycle our used health and beauty products.

Their third party app Recycle at Boots uses a Scan2Recycle system where users can upload items from various beauty brands by taking a picture of the empty packaging before identifying its form.

This scheme takes items that can't usually be recycled at home such as lotion pumps, toothpaste tubes, lipstick, mascaras, travel minis, make-up palettes and more.

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Once you have five items approved, head over to your nearest participating Boots store, drop off your empties and scan the QR code on the deposit box.

After you've followed all these steps, a voucher will appear entitling you to 500 Advantage Points when you spend £10 in-store, and not only do you have £5 worth of points with your name on it, you're also an eco-warrior.

There's even a dedicated section of the app to recycling empty medicine and vitamin blister packs which gives customers 100 Advantage Points, when you spend £5 in-store - This is brill.

Items dropped into these deposit boxes are taken to MyGroup, a recycling and waste management service which works around the clock to help divert waste from landfill.

These empties will be washed and traditionally recycled into a material called MyBoard, a construction board material most similar to plywood with lots of different uses.

Nearest Boots locations in Manchester running the Recycle at Boots scheme: 

  • Leeds Trinity - 1 Bond Street, LS1 5EY
  • Leeds Kirkstall - Savins Mill Way, LS5 3RP
  • White Rose Shopping Centre - Lower Level, Leeds, LS11 8LL
  • Thorpe Park - Unit 3 The Springs, LS15 8GG
  • Birstall Retail Park - Batley, West Yorkshire, WF7417 9DT

If you're up for getting money off your next Boots splurge while also helping recycle cosmetics containers and more, you can download the Recycle at Boots app and find your nearest HERE.

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Get Baked announces shock closure of Headingley bakery due to a ‘significant rise in rent’ 

Clementine Hall Clementine Hall

Viral bakery Get Baked will be closing the doors of its Headingley bakery at the end of next month. 

It’s safe to say that Get Baked is a proper Leeds success story, opening five years ago and fast becoming one of the most viral bakeries in the UK. 

Customers had their fingers on the pulse to grab a slice of that oh so mighty chocolate cake week in, week out, and us locals felt very lucky to have a Get Baked on our doorstep. 

But unfortunately, this won’t be the case anymore as today the bakery has announced they’ll be closing their Headingley site for good. 

A slice of chocolate cake being held up outside Get Baked in Headingley.
A cookie from Get Baked in Headingley.
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Owner Rich took to Instagram to announce the sad news, he said: “These are words I never envisaged myself writing, but I must share with you all the news that at the end of February, our Headingley store will be closing.

“When we opened the site 5 years ago, it was a requirement of the landlord that the lease was personally guaranteed — at the time I had little to lose, and didn’t think twice.

“Now our lease is up for renewal, with the same requirement for me to personally guarantee it — the difference being that I have a lot more to lose, and with a significant rise in rent and rates, paired with the obvious strains on hospitality that everyone’s more than aware of — I can no longer personally guarantee the lease.

"The new lease would mean that the price we lay out in Headingley would exceed the amount we pay for our site in Manchester City centre, which for the style of business that we are, is just madness.

"Being busy is no longer enough to make most hospitality sites work, you have to squeeze so hard to the point where there’s no real fun left — record sales weeks become less of a joy, and more of a necessity.

"For complete transparency, the business has grown to a point where we have to take £500,000 a month to break even — it’s very scary, but it’s all a result of the rapid growth that we’ve undergone over the last few years.

"We are extremely lucky to have a very strong online business. We serve thousands of customers every week delivering desserts all over the country — online is very much the future of GB.

"I have an enormous amount of gratitude for the teams that we’ve had in Headingley over the last five years — we’ve employed some incredible people that played a pivotal role in the businesses success.

"Without them, we wouldn’t be where we are — I’m extremely grateful. I must also thank our customers — when we relaunched the business from nothing in 2021, we were welcomed with open arms.

"OG customers from the previous iteration of GB came back like it had never left, it was truly remarkable. I’m conscious that Headingley serves some of our most loyal and regular customers, and I am so grateful to you all for your support over the years. We will close the doors on Saturday the 28th of February."

If you’re still looking to get your Get Baked fix, you can either order online or take a trip across the Pennines to visit their bakery in Manchester City Centre. 

Read more: Leeds pub requests extended opening hours after Otley Run ban

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Leeds pub requests extended opening hours after Otley Run ban

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A pub in Headingley which failed in a bid to join the Otley Run has applied for later opening hours.

You may remember back in December when The Golden Beam in Headingley requested to join the ever so famous pub crawl, The Otley Run.

The application was denied by Leeds City Council, but now they're focusing their efforts on a different application in a quest to extend their opening hours.

The pub which serves until 10:30pm on weekdays and midnight on Friday and Saturday, has applied to operate until midnight Sunday to Thursday and until 00:30 at weekends.

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Leeds City Council will consider the application at a hearing next Tuesday 20 January.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, 22 objections have been made by locals and from Headingley and Hyde Park councillor Tim Goodall.

Goodall said in a letter: "Allowing the Golden Beam to open later is likely to lead to increased consumption of alcohol, which is then likely to lead to an even higher rate of drunk and disorderly crime."

At the hearing councillors will have the option of granting or refusing the application, or allowing it with additional conditions when considering the extended hours.

A spokesperson from The Golden Beam said: “The Golden Beam has extensive seating and lavatory facilities within the pub, CCTV throughout, no music, food availability until 10pm Sunday to Thursday and 11pm Friday and Saturday and highly trained staff."

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