Those burnt orange or amber-toned prescription bottles are standard. We’ve all seen them, picked up our own prescriptions in ...

It turns out that I wasn’t far off chronologically. Plastic began being used in pill bottles after World War II, but the ...

Those burnt orange or amber toned prescription bottles are standard. ... 99% chance they come in an orange plastic bottle with a child-proof white top. But why that standard, ...

Cabinet Health, a certified B Corp, estimates that the pharmaceutical industry produces 194 billion plastic pill bottles a year, of which 90% end up in landfills.

Using the companies' estimate of saving 450,000 single-use plastic bottles each year, the plastic savings equals 25.3 tons (23 metric tons) annually.