For many patients, a cap on the pill bottle represents just another hurdle to taking their medications. But a number of new types of pill bottle caps are designed to help patients take their medicine ...

SCRANTON – A desire to make his arthritic grandmother’s pill bottles easier to open inspired a Moscow man to patent a new bottle cap design with scores of potential applications. Zachery “Rocky” ...

Research shows 78,000 tons of recyclable HDPE and PP prescription bottles are discarded yearly despite strong end-market ...

Trinity University classmates Gavin Buchanan and Andrew Aertker were brainstorming for a class assignment in 2017, trying to develop solutions to the opioid crisis that had swept the nation. They ...

Not many pill bottles are getting recycled in the U.S. despite them being made of commonly recyclable material. A new Closed ...

A pill bottle cap requiring a thumbprint to open, measuring the amount of pills left in each bottle and tracking any openings that are unusual, might soon be hitting the market thanks to two William & ...

Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy released new findings to support increased recovery and recycling of prescription pill bottles.

DEAR HELOISE: If you can’t get the cap off a pill bottle on the first time, use something like a dull knife blade or a bottle cap opener to pry out the plastic insert inside the cap, and then replace ...

Editor’s note: This story was previously published in Pulse Magazine on March 8. For many patients, a cap on the pill bottle represents just another hurdle to taking their medications. But a number of ...