Pill Bottles - Malawi Needs Them!

[Karen]

I have often been annoyed that my drugstore chain will not reuse pill bottles. I routinely peel off the labels before I recycle them, but still, they are perfectly usable, surely they could do some good - and it turns out, they can!!!!!!!!! Pet meds, human meds, they all come in these bottles - and all can be donated!

From the Facebook page for http://malawiproject.org/

Malawi Needs Medicine Bottles
We throw them away. They go to a landfill. After all, what can we use them for after the medicineis gone? It’s those empty medicine bottles. Still clean and new like the day they were born there should be something they can be used for.
There is! You can boil water and clean off the labels and glue and send them to Malawi. So often in the small rural hospitals medicine is dispensed into small torn pieces of newspaper for transportation to village homes. Then where to put them? Where will they be safe? Where will they be out of reach of children? Where will they stay clean?
Send your clean medicine bottles to:
Malawi Project
3314 Van Tassel Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46240

[kuhio98]

Cool! Thanks for letting us know. We'll be saving this address for future use.

[Catty1]

Great idea!

I use two of them for storing $1 coins and quarters for laundry day!

[RICHARD]

I just chuck them into the recycle bin, I also have some colored plastic ones that I will send along!

[Karen]

This is such a great idea, I even emailed it to my church's Missions committee people, as we have, of course, elderly folks in our church as well as people of all ages, and I know many rely on medicines daily!

[mrspunkysmom]

Awesome idea.

[Taz_Zoee]

I will have to pass this on to my parents. I know my dad takes a TON of meds!
Or I should just tell mom to save them up and I can mail them out.

[RICHARD]

This makes me WANT to take my pills......I already have about 12 old ones and I am looking thru the house for some that I re-purposed for other stuff...

[Karen]

Weee - my church is going to do this for sure, and one choir member tonight said, "I hope you have a BIG box ready .... " I assured her we will!

[momcat]

Thank you so much for this information! Now I know that my prescription bottles can be used to help countless others and they'll be sent over. I will pass this on to my Pastor and ask her to announce it at our service on Sunday.

[mrspunkysmom]

Thanks for the reminder. I knew I had seen this somewhere. A few weeks before this was posted I had thrown out a lot of old pill bottles. Yikes.