I caved and bought some tins as well. They are super easy to fill and they were very affordable. I chose the 1 ounce size
Perhaps yours are similar? Your larger tube sounds clever.
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That’s what I bought also, Beth! Albeit slightly smaller, to try to stack them in a stainless steel tube. The idea was mostly to try to keep it somewhat airtight. Albeit the original containers the supplements are kept in are also not airtight, so perhaps it’s not really necessary.
Let me know how that works for you, if you wouldn’t mind. Hope it will be convenient!
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I mean, do medications spill out easily from these?
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@Pat25. They’ve been great, but the pile does get a little unruly. I’ll follow your tip and will look for a container of some sort to keep them in. PS I do still look at my $$Dosey containers that sit there unused and feel tremendous guilt!
@AlexKChen I’ve been using them for a couple of months, and even when tossing them in my bag, they have never once opened. I happen to prefer ‘singles’ like this so I can carry around my pills for the day instead of a larger container of pills for a week.
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How many metformin pills can each carry? or 1gram (2.2mm) taurine vegcapsules?
I happen to have both here, so when i have time (probably tomorrow), I’ll fill them and let you know!
ok yay!! I feel like maybe a larger size would be optimal, but this could change A LOT for me personally
also my acarbose pills tend to spill out and get contaminated in their pillpouches (EVEN WHEN THEY’RE ONLY SLIGHTLY OPEN) and this has gotten to become a major concern lately
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Is aluminum preferable over stainless steel? For cooking – it can leach, at least.
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@A_User Good question/point.
My uneducated guess is also that stainless steel is safer, but when I looked for those, they were really hard to find and significantly more expensive… fuzzy memory but maybe $20 ish per container. I wanted a large quantity. I am filling up 3 weeks worth 2x per day at once.
18 1000mg taurine pills inside, at your service!
Let me know if it’s still helpful to show you acarbose or metformin (tell me the dosage you prefer incase I have an option in the little pharmacy I have going on over here 
EDIT:
Also @AlexKChen, you mentioned bags, so in the event bags work better for you, I’ll share my Dosey bags… they are really nice quality and very large, but they are a chore to hold open to fill which is why I bought the tins. If I were only putting one type of pill in each bag (easier to fill that way), I would have been happy to keep using them.
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Thanks! Damn, that’s really small, I would prefer something a bit larger, esp b/c I often visit the bay area for 3-4 weeks at a time
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@AlexKChen Not so fast!!! Click on the link I provided… you’ll see they come in all sorts of sizes!!! Mine is 1 ounce… they offer up to 4 ounces… but when I scroll to the bottom of the page where they offer other recommendations, I quickly spotted one that is 6 ounces
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6 ounce same brand
https://www.amazon.com/Hulless-Aluminum-Storage-Containers-Storing/dp/B08PSQV7YW
Different brand so you’d have to test, but 10 ounces!
https://www.amazon.com/OBKJJ-10-Aluminum-Containers-Stickers/dp/B0BYRMZKH1
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This was interesting, Worst offender seems to be car tires according to Matt Kaeberlein.
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As far as I understand it reacting of aluminium ions should be more of an issue with liquids, acidic and/or very salty foods and powders.
@Beth Happy to hear it is working for you thus far 
! I found some small boxes here at a dollar store that seem to have a reasonably airtight (silicone) seal. Perhaps you can find something similar. I think a few of such boxes may work well to store the aluminium tins in, to keep them more organised. (I just bought bigger tins for a start as mine were too small 
) .“PS I do still look at my $$Dosey containers that sit there unused and feel tremendous guilt!” I recognise this so much, Beth 
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Dusan m posted it
[it seems to have some weird claims]…
polybutylene adipate co terephthalate in water under both dark conditions and ultraviolet light for periods of up to 96 hours. Exposure to sunlight sharply increased the amount of dissolved organic carbon released by all four plastics. Materials designed to be biodegradable, such as PLA and PBAT, released the highest levels, which the researchers linked to their less stable chemical structures.
https://scitechdaily.com/microplastics-are-leaking-invisible-chemical-clouds-into-rivers-and-oceans/
[this is more alarmist than needs to be FOR NOW with sloppy reasoning, and attributes excess causality, but given their growth trajectories, the causality may eventually form…] I still learned a lot from this
nanoplastics to exhibit either positive or negative charge depending on the pH
of the environment. In acidic environments, amino groups may give particles a positive charge, while in
alkaline conditions, carboxyl groups dominate and impart a negative charge — findings that have been
confirmed in studies involving Arabidopsis thaliana plantsAccording to the authors of the report, shielding or neutralizing the electrostatic charge of MNPs
can reduce their potential hazard by at least 50%
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'A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
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That’s what Big Microplastic wants you to think!
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