My medicine cabinet is jam packed with prescription drug bottles. I don’t like to throw them away due to the fact that they have so much personal information on them and, let’s face it, I’m not going to tear the labels off each bottle prior to disposal.
Why don’t the major drug store chains accept old bottles back? It’s always seemed like such a waste to issue a huge bottle for 30 tiny pills only to throw it away at the end of the month. I would think this concept would lend well to a PR campaign as well as generate walk-in traffic.
Could be that this idea already exists and my local drug store just hasn’t gotten with the times…
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Interesting idea. It would seem that they could be cleaned, de-labeled and reused. Profit motive for the large drug store chains?
On the surface is seems like it would be beneficial.
(1) But what percentage of people have the time, and discipline to really use such a service?
(2) Pharmacies would not be "bothered" by such a thing as it does not intrinsically add to the bottom line, and worse it is a liability risk. Patrons subject to identity theft could rightly or wrongly point to the pharmacy for having incorrectly disposed of their information.
(3) Tear-away bottle labels would seem an easier approach.
This works in several European countries. a.) partly used boxes or bottles of drugs are given to charities who distribute them in developing countries or to poor citizensb.) medicine rests unusable for a are taken care of in an environment-friendly way.I wouldn't know if the bottles are ever re-used. There may be safety-arguments against it. Or cleaning bottles may be more expensive than casting a new one from plastics or glass.
Pharmacies in the UK always used to plead for their bottles back, but then so did brewers and pop bottlers, in the days when you paid a recoverable deposit on the latter. I guess these days that the cost of recovering and sterilising the old containers is greater than the new ones, so I just rip off the plastic tops, deface the labels and recycle them along with my (occasional) empty wine bottles.
Pharmacies in the UK always used to plead for their bottles back, but then so did brewers and pop bottlers, in the days when you paid a recoverable deposit on the latter. I guess these days that the cost of recovering and sterilising the old containers is greater than the new ones, so I just rip off the plastic tops, deface the labels and recycle them along with my (occasional) empty wine bottles.
Pharmacies in the UK always used to plead for their bottles back, but then so did brewers and pop bottlers, in the days when you paid a recoverable deposit on the latter. I guess these days that the cost of recovering and sterilising the old containers is greater than the new ones, so I just rip off the plastic tops, deface the labels and recycle them along with my (occasional) empty wine bottles.
Pharmacies in the UK always used to plead for their bottles back, but then so did brewers and pop bottlers, in the days when you paid a recoverable deposit on the latter. I guess these days that the cost of recovering and sterilising the old containers is greater than the new ones, so I just rip off the plastic tops, deface the labels and recycle them along with my (occasional) empty wine bottles.
Pharmacies in the UK always used to plead for their bottles back, but then so did brewers and pop bottlers, in the days when you paid a recoverable deposit on the latter. I guess these days that the cost of recovering and sterilising the old containers is greater than the new ones, so I just rip off the plastic tops, deface the labels and recycle them along with my (occasional) empty wine bottles.
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