How To Recycle Pharma Bottle?

Americans fill an estimated 4 billion prescriptions each year and buy more over the counter. Prescriptions are usually packaged in orange plastic bottles. Over-the-counter bottles come in a wide variety of sizes, including transparent, opaque, and colored plastics. The problem with recycling prescription drug bottles is that most roadside programs don't accept them. The difficulty with reusing them is that they should not be placed in the food, lest the rest of the medicine gets into the food. Add to this the difficulty of disposing of the remaining painkillers, antibiotics, sleeping pills, and antidepressants, and finding an eco-friendly way to dispose of the bottles seems to be a cause for failure. But don't give up hope yet. Recycling over-the-counter bottles can be fairly easy, depending on the ingredients and the rules of the local recycling company. And, as the problems involved in disposing of old drugs become more acute, new solutions for recycling these products become available.

1.Why is it important to recycle pharma bottles?

The pharma bottle is made of plastic and does not degrade. Imagine billions of these bottles forming a permanent sea of translucent orange plastic in landfills across the country, and you can imagine why it's important to find another use for them. It is also important to find a good way to dispose of the drugs contained in these bottles. The answer is don't flush them down the toilet. Even the best sewage treatment plants do not remove prescription drugs from the water before discharging it into rivers and streams. Drugs affect fish and other wildlife, which will eventually return to human consumption. Hanging on to drugs indefinitely is not a good solution either. Old drugs may not work properly when they expire, and some of the drugs in the house may find them extremely tempting.

2.How do we reuse pharma bottles?

Old medicine bottles can be used as storage containers for items such as sewing supplies, screws, nails and small hair accessories. They also look great and can be integrated into lamps, turned into vases, or used as molds for homemade crayons.

3.How to safely dispose of drugs?

Government agencies and industry groups are making significant progress in addressing prescription drug disposal. People can put medicine in special collection boxes in government buildings. For obvious safety reasons, drugs cannot be recycled, but they can be burned in special incinerators to prevent harmful substances from entering the air.

4.What is a plastic medicine bottle?

Plastic medicine bottles are generally made of PET material, because PET material has the advantages of not easy to break, good sealing performance, moisture-proof, hygienic, and meets the special requirements of medicine packaging. It can be directly used for medicine packaging without washing and drying. It is excellent for medicinal packaging containers.

Secondly, HDPE (high-density polyethylene), PE (polyethylene), and PP (polypropylene) are often used to make plastic medicine bottles.

Among them, PET and PP are stable, transparent, and translucent when uncolored, so these two materials are suitable for packaging liquid medicines; PE plastic bottle medicine bottles are mainly used for packaging solid capsules and oral tablets.

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