"I literally always feel terrible when I throw them away." Woman shares genius hack using empty medicine bottles: 'Such a good idea' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Using E. coli and plastic waste to produce a common pain medication, researchers say their findings could pave the way for ...

"I use them in my garage." Resident surprised after learning what to do with empty pill bottles: 'They will usually take them ...

Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and sadly most of them end up in landfills. In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away ...

A new study has made a jaw-dropping discovery on microplastics — and it may have you rethinking how you consume your favorite beverages.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

And it’s estimated that 90% of the roughly 200 billion plastic pill bottles manufactured every year wind up in landfills, contributing to the massive plastic pollution problem we have in the world.

As a child who had to take a lot of medication—I grew up in the era when they gave you antibiotics if you sneezed twice—I had quite the collection of those plastic orange pill bottles with the ...