Why not recycle these.

I keep noticing: Each month my mother, my wife Andrea and I go through close to a dozen prescriptions a month. We keep accumulating these script bottles.

We're big on recycling and I personally recycle everything I can in one way or another. I use pill bottles as often as I can, but I can only use so many. I would send the rest to the recycling center, but the ones that are designated for recycling are not coded for our region. I would just like to know why the pharmacies don't recycle them. I've heard that it's because of the possibility of "cross contamination" but I think that's a crock. They can be cleaned just like any other containers. Recycling them could lower the costs of prescriptions and I believe that is the real reason pharmaceutical companies don't want to recycle. Those small pennies turn into big bucks when you're talking about millions of bottles.