Disposing Medications:

1. Most medication bottles are type 5 plastic which are difficult to recycle.

2. Crush up unused the medicine and mix it in with either kitty litter or sawdust, and dispose of it in the trash. That way no people or animals are likely to ingest it...

3.  Take your outdated/unused medication to your local hospital for disposal.

4. Never, ever dump drugs of any kind into the toilet. The water treatment plants are not set up to clean out every medication from the water.

5. Check with your individual state or county for more information on household hazardous waste; what you should do and how they handle it.

6. Some humane society has asked for empty prescription bottles to use when they adopt out puppies or kittens for a day or two of medicine.You might check with your local humane society.

Dose Keeper launched National Safety Dose Awareness Day!

National Safety Dose Day
May 15
The purpose of National Safety Dose Awareness Day (sponsored by Dose Keeper) is for parents/individuals once a year to go through their medicine cabinets and not only re-educate themselves on proper dosing techniques for their kids and themselves but also National Safety Dose Awareness Day encourages people to take inventory of their medications in their home and throw away the ones that are expired and therefore replace with new ones. 
 
National Safety Dose Day encourages everyone to go into their medicine cabinets and get rid of expired medicine bottles.  Then on Safety Dose Day people hold drives across the nation collecting empty medicine bottles and then donating them to a homeless shelter who reuse them to put in shampoo, hand cream, and other semi-liquids in so that homeless people can have a small supply of health products that are easy to carry.  On this day we also encourage folks to call their city and ask for Hazardous Waste Disposal and throw away their medications.  In turn, we raise awareness about recycable plastics on our website in hopes of making the world less poluted and hazardous for our future generations.

Dose Keeper great cause for both humanity and the earth!

REUSING EMPTY MEDICATION BOTTLES

Reusing medication bottles is the best way to avoid contaminating our environment with type 5-7 plastics that are not biodegradable or recycable! But before you reuse them you MUST clean them out very well since their might be medication residue left in them.

CLEANING OUT MEDICATION BOTTLES
1.   Get an empty water jug.
2.  Wash medication bottle with hot soapy water and then again with bleach. DO NOT dump in sink, instead dump contaminated water in empty water jug. Once you are done, take water jug and mark with an X and immediately take into your city's Hazardous Waste location. 

Caution: Do not leave water jug around the house because kids and other adults might mistake it for safe drinking water or juice, therefore dispose of it immediately!

RE-USES FOR MEDICATION BOTTLES
1. You can drill a small hole in the bottom. String your Christmas lights into them and hang outside for decorations on holidays!
2. Travel kit for cotton balls soaked with nail polish remover. The cotton balls stay saturated and can easily removes nailpolish.
3. Use some of the larger size bottles for sorting and storing jewelry when traveling.
4. Use to store spare keys you don't use often. Just label the outside.
5. Take 1 large and 4 small bottles,labels and caps removed, and using a good glue meant for plastic. Glue them together in a tight circle, with a tall one in the middle and spray paint in white or black. They make lovely tray favour vases or keepsakes when filled with small real or silk flowers.
6. Keeping fishing hooks & other things in tackle box in. Good for small nuts, bolts & screws.