Ask Me Anything: Recycle Prescription Bottles, Help with Student Financial Aid

Ask Me Anything: Recycle Prescription Bottles, Help with Student Financial Aid
Empty prescription bottles can be repurposed to store needles, buttons, or other small items. Nancy Salmon/Shutterstock
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Dear Cheapskate: Do you know of any place where I can donate empty plastic prescription bottles? It seems such a waste to throw them away.— Susan H., Tennessee

Dear Susan: Call your local veterinarian. Most vets are more than happy to receive cleaned prescription bottles with labels removed for dispensing medicines for animals. Humane societies need bottles to send medications home with newly adopted pets, too.

Mary Hunt
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