For those taking prescription medications, plastic is likely the only vessel they come in--and some 90% of them are not recycled, according to Tikkun Olam Makers, an Israel-based collective dedicated to solving social and environmental problems. Thus they've created the Prescription Paper Pill Bottle:

I wondered how they'd pulled off the childproofing bit, and here's their solution:

The open-source design can be downloaded as an .stl file, with attendant images and assembly instructions, here.

"This can lead to mounds of wasted plastic being sent to our landfills and eventually our oceans." Out of sheer curiosity, how does the plastic make its way from landfills to the oceans?

.stl file would be a 3D printable file, perhaps it is a .svg file??Clicking download on the site does not yield a download, frustrating!

.stl file would be for a 3D printed object...this would have to be a vector file so that is could be laser cut, perhaps a .svg file???I was not able to find the file on the site. clicking download on the site does not yield a download...frustrating

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.

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