How to recycle empty pill bottles
Examples of medicine containers
- Prescription pill bottles
- Blood glucose test strip bottles
- Pill vials
- Vitamin bottles
- Cough syrup bottles
- Medicine bottles
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Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot
Put empty and clean medicine containers:
- Into your blue cart for recycling
- Take to a community recycling depot
Special instructions
- For leftover drugs, pills and medicine see our prescription drugs page.
- Remove lids, caps, cotton ball insulation and gel packets and put in the garbage.