Like use a cheap brown paper bag and stick the label on that. Cheaper and much less plastic waste. If I wanted a pill bottle, I can buy my own.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
    16·
    9 months ago

    Kids man. Kids will get into everything. The pill bottle is supposed to slow them down.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    9 months ago

    You know…Those capsules and coated tablets are…you know…sensitive to moisture?

    Example: My capsules get soft as soon as they get wet.
    Imagine biting of a gummy bear and then sticking the remaining part on any dry surface. Those capsules can stick better than any gummy bear and they’ll rip apart very easily.

    After all they (some) are just made out of gelatine.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    I get 120 days worth of meds at a time. A paper bag would be destroyed.

    But the option would be good, so that I can reuse the bottle.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    This is a terrible take because medication takers arent the source of the world’s plastic issues. This take is no different than shaming people into sorting their recycling when it just gets sent to some dump in China anyway and individuals, even en masse are not the drivers of mass pollution. Also people frequently reuse medication bottles to securely store various other things and keep them around indefinitey so they are probably one of the furthest things from “the problem” whatever the heck that problem is

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    It’s almost like once upon a time we put shit in burlap sacks and paper and discovered that it was a moisture magnet. That’s good for pills right? A moist environment? Possibly warm depending on where you store it? That couldn’t possibly have adverse effects to sensitive compounds we ingest.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    22·
    9 months ago

    Guns should also be left in the open for children to play with since we’re on the topic of easy things we can change to threaten the life of those that may not know better yet!

      • unmagical@lemmy.ml
        31·
        9 months ago

        Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.

        Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.

        Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.