Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
I do use some for storing beads. I have used them for storage, when I have mixed acrylic paints and only have small amounts left. I pour the paint into the appropriate sized bottle and smear a little of the paint on the top of the lid so I know what color is inside. But I was just wondering about pharmacies recycling them. Does anybody know?
Sheila from Decatur, IL
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RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
Hi Sheila, I saw that you are from Indiana, I found a place through recycle 911. I have a Whole Foods store nearby, their recycling machines will take medicine bottles, I see there are stores in IN. I don't know if you are nearby one. Correction the site is earth911 . com it should be able to tell you nearby places by zip code you would be looking for recycle plastic #5 . Good Luck and TY for your post. Lizz
Post by lizz50
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
I do not know about that.I use them to store small screws, tacks and such. My grand daughter loves to pretend she is cooking so we made her a spice collection for her play kitchen. I use one to carry my spare change in. Debbie
Post by dcsprsmm
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
Check out Chiroone.net. They don't take the pill bottles, but they may be able to get you off some of those meds.
Post by bebhinne
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Take them to your vets, but ask first. That is what I do, as well as many people here in my small town.
Post by islandsage
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
If you take them in when you need a refill, the pharmacist can USE YOUR OWN bottles for YOUR OWN new refills.
I have used a multitude of ideas from crafts, sewing, change for the car, skrews, nuts, bolts, when I have broken something sharp I put it in one before sending to the garbage. Anything small you open can be put into a script bottle. Vitamins, etc come in recyclable bottles-check the bottom.
I also use my 6" tall script bottles for vitamins that don't have child proof caps, they are dark in color and also can be labeled to be high out of the reach of kids.
Post by T&T Grandma
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
A new use I found for a few is to dispose of the lid and just use the bottle to store small items in the medicine cabinet. I keep toenail and nail clippers in one and a Burt's Bees lip gloss and a Chapstick in another. They stand up nicely and keep those items from falling off the shelf. You can just grab the little prescription bottle to get what you need.
I still end up with more empty prescription bottles than we can utilize for our own use so I occasionally take a bag of them over to the local animal hospital. They are most appreciative to get them as they have to buy them for dispensing pet meds.
Post by Debbie52
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
You could donate them to a free clinic with a pharmacy you would need to remove the labels and clean them inside and out thanks.
Post by wvrdnkwmn
RE: Places to Recycle Prescription Bottles
Have you tried having your pharmacy dispense your meds in paper envelopes? That way you are in effect "refilling" your own prescription bottles.
Note: How to Dispose of Meds
Please DO NOT put down garbage disposal. You contaminate the water ways by doing that and those drugs end up in all kinds on unintended places and bodies. Old prescription meds and vitamins and OTC drugs are considered HAZARDOUS WASTE and should be disposed of at Haz Waste collection places.
Post by akosei
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