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Residential recycling and disposal search tool

Pill containers and medicine bottles

How to recycle empty pill bottles

Prescription bottles

Vitamin bottles

Cough syrup and medicine bottles

Examples of medicine containers

  • Prescription pill bottles
  • Blood glucose test strip bottles
  • Pill vials
  • Vitamin bottles
  • Cough syrup bottles
  • Medicine bottles

  • 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.

Map of community recycling depots

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Blood glucose test strips

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