A Week Without Plastic - Day 7

I am feeling pretty good about the challenge. I still have the rest of today to go but so far I've bought nothing that is made of plastic or primarily plastic. My only plastic purchases have been things from the grocery with plastic packaging. Not bad. My friend in Japan says that it's even more difficult there to avoid plastic since packaging is even more over the top. Which gets me to the topic of this post.

During this week of no plastic I had to refill my statin prescription. And as usual it looks like this:

For some reason Kaiser puts it in a bottle five or more times larger in capacity than necessary. I'm sure plastic has been great for the pharmaceutical industry as these bottles keep drugs dry and usually whole. But is it necessary? These little pills are really hard, I can't imagine they'd suffer from just being placed in a paper or cardboard box or envelope. Hell, I've spent many hours at a rave with 3 hits of ecstasy rolling around loose in my pocket and they survived. I'm pretty sure they weren't made with the kind of equipment Lily etc. so surely pills are sturdy enough to survive less packaging.