Pharma’s plastic prescription bottle problem gets a paper solution

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? 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 each year.

That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times.

While they might seem harmless, these bottles contribute significantly to the growing plastic pollution...