with clean, safer drugs.

Agree that it's a great idea, but apparently this program has been discontinued as of November 2015:
http://www.malawiproject.org/newsletter-explains-pill-container-program-conclusion/
(Unfortunately, it also sounds like they though they've collected over a million containers, they may not have shipped many of them to Malawi yet; they're now looking for donations for funding to do so.)

Is anyone aware of any similar projects like this? If Malawi can use these containers, presumably other places have use for them, too?

We don't have a lot of these, fortunately, but I am delighted to know they can be re-used.

Rec

an email to local friends asking them to save any empties for me.

I already have a little stash of them just because I hate to waste things like that. This is a great post. Thanks for sharing.

is even better.

This is a good idea. Thanks.

I'll check them out later and get a box out in the next week or month.

bottles up ever so often, like once every 90 days.

DH is a HS teacher who oversees a lot of student service projects. This would be a great project for students - we've got loads of retirees here!

for businesses. My daughter worked at a place where the employees brought in these bottles twice a year.

..... and using some for small parts in my shop, storing fly tying materials and finished flies, and my favorite for travel is to stuff three (3) plastic shopping bags into the 4" tall child proof bottle.

One or two in the glove compartment and you have trash bags for a trip.

But that still leave lots of bottle I hate to trash. Thanks for the idea a box full will be on it's way.

We have several empty drug bottles around and now we know what to do with them.

We will start working on this today.

notion of AIDS prevention which involves a purity pledge by teen girls but which makes no mention at all of condoms or HIV testing.
Programs in Moral Purity

An effective program of teaching about AIDS prevention is visible in a simple imitation pearl bracket worn by thousands of Malawi girls and young women.

It begins with seminars and gatherings of groups of women to discuss saying “no” to unwanted sexual advances and remaining pure until the wedding night. The seminars stress the many ways HIV can be acquired and how this next generation of Malawians must take steps to avoid the scourge that is killing so many. The seminar concludes with an offer of a small hand made imitation pearl bracket to be worn by any of the young women who will try to restrain sexual advances and remain pure.
http://malawiproject.org/programs/education/

muddy the waters by mucking up one project by bringing up something else.

As if the men aren't strong enough to overpower them.

I use some of mine to collect my snippets of wire for recycling, but had been throwing the rest out since we don't have good recycling here.

Instead of taking big tubes of shampoo, softner hair rinse, and lotion when I travel I put the products in these bottles. Never had any leakage problems.

Thanks

to save their bottles and do this. Sometimes a small thing can make a big difference.

rinsing them out adds chemicals to our water system.

I live in the UK and they're in blister packs, not bottles. Same in the rest of Europe. There are various reasons for this, mostly I think the fact that it's easier to keep track of dosing with a blister pack (you can see that the pill for that day has been taken) and that it's harder to overdose.

That's how blood pressure, and statins come to the SO.

100 pills in blister pac would seem waste a lot of space and require going from an envelope to a box, possibly increasing the cost of posting.

prescriptions are relatively cheap (or free if you're in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland), because of the NHS.

First off, the elderly and people with disabilities (like me) have a very hard time opening blister packs.

Second, they create tons of waste which cannot be recycled. Bottles can be recycled.

All around, blister packs are a really bad idea.

And childproof caps are easy for the elderly and disabled to open, I imagine? And you can't easily get too many pills out of a blister pack (unlike a bottle).

and now will save and send my bottles.

Not sure which they do, but they take them back and have a machine that strips the labels off. Every month when we go in for our refills we take the old bottles back to them.

I'm taking entirely too many prescriptions these days (Anyone who thinks the human body is the result of intelligent design has never known a proper engineer) so I get a bottle a week at least. Got one this morning.

Good idea.

Whoever designed us made a LOT of mistakes!

something to the effect;

"Lets start with the mouth. Our tongues are too big for our mouths. We take in air and food through the same hole. One very common cause of death is choking. A Dolphin has a much better design!

You can probably find it on You Tube.

Who knew?

But seriously, this is a great idea.

I wish.

Hey, big spender...

shouldn't have even mentioned that now that the NSA/CIA are monitoring everything we say and do. And they notify local authorities.

...I'm in Oregon, and my local authorities couldn't care less (unless I was moving some big quantities).

Thank you for posting!

Off to share this with the residents at my mother's retirement community....

American Foundation for Children with AIDS Mailing Address:

Tanya Weaver, Executive Director
American Foundation for Children with AIDS
6221 Blue Grass Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17112


AMVET

AMVET Post 208 Ladies Auxillary
Attention: Deirdre
5 South Street
Hudson, MA 01749


You might also check with your local animal shelters or homeless shelters or free clinics to see if they could use them. Also see if your pharmacy or any in your area collect them to be used for charity...that way you don't have to pay the shipping.

For the rest of us, herbs and crystals don't really get the job done.

along to a local charity, which believe is the St. Vincent DePaul charitable Pharmacy, which provides medicines free of charge to those who can't afford them otherwise.

I request regular caps, as opposed to the childproof caps, which can be difficult for a senior to open, especially if the senior has arthritis or limited hand strength.

Thanks for this info!

Posting to find link later.

Thanks much for posting this info!