Hmm.

[ewt]

Left hip not great today. I think I did something to it in the bath. Le sigh.

All my medications and some of my vitamins/supplements come in blister packs. This is starting to really bug me. I know they are more convenient for carrying around in coat pockets and so on, and I am grateful for that, but I can't help feeling upset about the waste created by the blister packs. I wonder if I can grill them and make them turn pretty colours or something; because they are metal and plastic and stuff and thing I can't put them in the ordinary recycling.

I know this is just a small thing, but it's a small thing that affects many, many people.

May re-post this to several hippie communities if I don't get enough ideas here. No time now.

Comments

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

Nope, meds in the UK come pre-packed in the blister packs and boxes and the pharmacist just takes the boxes off the shelf :/ Drives me nuts--in the US, the pharmacist has big bottles of tablets, and s/he uses a gadget to count out the pills and put them in little bottles (which can be re-used if you want to). More work for the pharmacist i guess but means they can give you any number. Nurofen, etc also come in bottles (no 12-tablet restriction) although cold tablets are limited and come in counted blister-packs because, er, you can use them to make crystal meth...

Vitamins, though--you can buy American Solgar ones, which come in bottles.

I've got several prescriptions and take multiple pills for some of them, and I get so annoyed with all the clutter from empty blister packs and cartons. it was so much easier when I had 3 or 4 bottles in my medicine cabinet!

[cabd.livejournal.com]

Some drugs here also come in bottles, but increasingly the trend is towards blister packs. The idea is that its much harder to accidentally overdose.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

It's also a lot easier for me to remember to take the damn things.

I understand the reasoning behind blister packs, I just wish I had some way to mitigate the packaging waste - other than getting completely healthy and not needing to take any tablets evar, but that's a long way off.