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Pill and medicine bottles - plastic

How to recycle empty plastic pill bottles

Recycle empty and clean plastic prescription bottles:

  • In your blue cart
  • At a community recycling depot

This also includes blood glucose test strip bottles, pill vials, cough syrup bottles, and medicine bottles.

Special instructions

  • For leftover drugs, pills and medicine see our prescription drugs page.
  • Remove caps and put in the garbage.
  • Remove cotton ball insulation and gel packets and put in the garbage.

Community recycling depot locations listed below:

Pill bottle
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