Repurposing pill bottles this way saves money on storage solutions for your coffee, meaning you don't have to buy any new products — which also cuts down on other resources to create a new product.

Plastic began being used in pill bottles after World War II, but the modern plastic pill bottle as we know it today, with its distinctive orange hue (technically, it’s called amber) and its ...

This is the fascinating history and reasons behind the color and design of pill bottles. […] The post This is Why Pill Bottles Are Always Orange appeared first on The Hearty Soul.

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times.

Unfortunately, although most pill bottles are made of recyclable plastic, many facilities are unable to recycle them due to their small size. That places them in the same category as 95% of ...

Further, Sun Pharma also recalled about 34,660 units of Kroger brand acetaminophen. Medicine bottles are displayed on shelves at the Walgreens Pharmacy in Miami, Aug. 28, 2017.

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics The catalytic process efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing closer a circular ...

Orange bottles are also synonymous with pharmaceuticals. Anytime you see an orange pill bottle, you know that there’s a prescribed drug in there. This makes it easy to distinguish prescriptions ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...