The location for recycling prescription bottles is here in Ohio, a little south of me, in Dover, Ohio. Dover is a bucolic little town, so typical of the Connecticut Western Reserve (though the Reserve may not have extended to what became Tuscarawas County).
For due diligence, I googled "recycle prescription bottles", in the event there are more around the country. Only the Tuscarawas service was returned. It is through the Matthew 25 Ministries. That is the pill bottle address. Here is the site of the ministry: https://m25m.org/
They accept over the counter plastic bottles, too. Aspirin, supplements, all those pesky bottles that I'm sure are not recycled.
Moving right along, here are the roll brim hat instructions. I have not found out how to get pictures back into the instructions. The yarn is wool, worsted weight (4 ply), but any worsted weight will do.
ROLL BRIM HAT
The pattern is for adult small, medium and large. The top of the hat is decreased in six sections, or gores, which produces a very attractive swirl. This kind of decreasing is a simple formula. The number of gores must divide evenly into the original number of stitches. When decreasing, knit together the last two stitches in the gore. It can be helpful to place markers. At the end of the pattern I have included number of stitches to cast on and the number of stitches in the gore sections to make the hat for infants and children.
16” circular #6, 1 set #6 DP needles
With 16” circular needle, cast on 90 (96, 102)sts. Join.
Place marker for beginning of round.
Work in stockinette stitch (knit every round) for 6”.
Decrease top as follows:
(if necessary, place a marker after every decrease to denote gore
section)
Round 2: K
Round 3: K12(13,14), K2tog.
Repeat to end.
Round 4: K
Round 5: K11(12,13), K2tog.
Repeat to end.
Round 6: K
Cast on 66 72 78 84
Great pattern, thank you.
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ReplyDeleteSomething tells me there is going to be a knitalong happening... YAM xx
Thanks for the info on the pill bottles. They multiply overnight!
ReplyDeleteLove the hat! We used to have a local church that collected the empties, but just the regular ones from the pharmacy. I was just filling my pill box the other day and had to throw a bunch of both prescription and over the counter ones away. Thanks for the info. I will start saving and maybe we can take a road trip this summer.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the boycott info.
ReplyDeleteI'm still confused about what is recyclable and what isn't. So many items either have a generalised recycle symbol which may or may not apply locally, or they say "widely recycled" which is as useless as the generalised symbol. And anyway there are constant rumours that a lot of supposedly recycled items are either burnt or put in landfill.
ReplyDeleteI've given up on recycle for plastics. I think think it all goes to the ocean or the landfill.
DeleteI never quite understand what's recyclable or not but I do try! John and I watched a documentary about what happens to most of our recycling and it was depressing. :(
ReplyDeleteI love rolled brim hats - tried to teach my disabled niece to knit in the round making one of these but at the end she hated the roll so much she wore her hat inside out so that she could pull the roll down and make it stay unrolled😂
ReplyDeleteIf she made another, a bit of ribbing or garter at the beginning would end the roll.
DeleteLove that hat!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I have very little hope that I'll be able to follow the pattern (or any pattern for that matter) but I am going to try.
ReplyDeleteIt really is simple. You can do it.
DeleteIt is the blister packs that are difficult to recycle here. I have a lot but I've seen others with many more. All that plastic and aluminium.
ReplyDeleteI've looked into Matthew 25 Ministries before but the shipping costs kept me from using them. I don't generate a lot of bottles, and wait until someone in the Buy Nothing group puts out a request for a pet shelter they volunteer at.
ReplyDeleteHave never seen ‘pill bottle recycling schemes’ here (in Aus.) but one of our very large discount pharmacies has a blister pack recycling scheme. No idea what they do with them though after we drop the ‘sheets’ into the large boxes at the entrance to their stores.
ReplyDeleteAs Tasker mentioned there are several components to each of the sheets.
Thank you Cathy, I shall look into the blister pack recycle scheme near me.
DeleteI believe it gets recycled from local pickup here. We get lists of things to recycle and also not to recycle, and at least I don't really them being in the NOT list. That said, I am never sure about the lids.
ReplyDeleteI fished four over the counter and prescription pill bottles out of the recycle box and they are now in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty hat, but I can no longer knit, so I buy cheap knitted hats instead and then forget to wear them anyway. All our prescription bottles go into our regular fortnightly collected recycle bins.
ReplyDeleteJoanne, thank you for the hat pattern!! Now I have to put my money where my mouth is and get knitting on this - at most, there's only four weeks of hat weather left for me, because I only wear one if it's quite cold :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a cute hat. I wondering what the ministry does with all the prescription and OTC pill bottles?
ReplyDeleteI believe they use them to dispense pills.
DeleteIt’s a plastic bottle so I would think it’s okay in the recycle bin, but it would be great if they could be reused in other countries.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info about the bottles!
ReplyDeleteI will definitely see about sending my empty pill bottles. Never learned to knit and now my hands would not cooperate!
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