They go bad, though? At least my nice white aspirin pills start crumbling and visibly yellowing after a few months. There’s no way me or even an entire family could swallow 500 until then.
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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoWould you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That’s why we buy the mega bottles.
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Well I can buy a pack of 16 in Tesco for £0.39
So we’re actually paying pretty close to the same amount per pill, just in smaller packs.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 days ago
More packaging waste though
TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Technically… But there’s also a lot of waste from the 500 pack that people throw out half of. It likely evens out.
saigot@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I don’t think there are many people just chucking pills out. 1000 isn’t much if it’s your go-to pain relief.
Ibuprofen solid tablets take about 5 years to expire (they are also pretty safe to eat expired as well, just might be less effective). So you have to have about 4 a week on average, which is well wihin safe limits even for a single person (and these are more for families).
As an example usecase If you have 3 menstrators in your household that take 4 a day 3 days a month (daily safe max is meant to be 6x200mg tablets) then that’s ~450 a year and you’ll be using them up more than quick enough to not throw any out, and that’s just dealing with cramps alone. Throw in someone with back pain, the occasional headache and sprained ankle, etc, and you can see how quickly a big family could go through them.
Personally I don’t quite go through them that quick (I use roughly 100 a year) but if my household was 1 bigger it would make sense for me too.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I believe individually packaged tablets actually do help reduce overdoses because you can’t just chug the whole bottle in one go. Yes it’s more wasteful but it does save lives.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is… Is that a thing that actually happens?