We are always being told that supermarkets us far to much packaging on their products, but the pharmaceutical industry are getting just as bad. As some one who has been on quite a lot of medication for some years the amount of packaging used for meds has gone up and up over the years. At one time you got tablets in a bottle, not know (well very rarely that is) they are all in blister packs, some of which are ridiculous to say the least. Two tabs I take every day now come in little boxes containing about 20 tabs plus instructions, each time I order these tabs I end up with loads of these little boxes, I used to get 2 bottles and considering the amount of money the pharmaceutical firms must have paid for the machines to make these packages is it any wonder the cost of drugs to the NHS is sky high
